Areas of Practice / Financial Sanctions & Export Controls

Designation Challenges

We advise on Ministerial reviews and judicial review challenges and coordinating challenges in multiple jurisdictions to provide one solution across all jurisdictions for clients.

We frequently make applications to the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office and the courts for a designated person to be delisted, including recent success in securing the delisting of a designated person in the UK.

Our Experts

Emma Brooks Partner

Arozo Gajia Senior Associate

Michael Potts Partner

Notable Experience

Advising the former Chairman and majority shareholder of a listed Russian company in the telecommunications industry in the context of exposure he faced from the imposition of sanctions measures against him together with assisting him in preparing detailed written submissions to OFSI to seek a revocation of his designated status.
Advising a high-net-worth individual with alleged connections with the Government of Russia in the context of challenging his designated status in the UK and the US.
Advising and successfully obtaining the delisting of Semyon Simonyan from the UK consolidated list.

News & Insights

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24.02.25

Further word on Supreme Court’s decision in important Insolvency Act case

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19.02.25

UK Supreme Court confirms scope of s423 Insolvency Act

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06.02.25

Cerberus refused permission to appeal €400 million judgment in favour of PCB Byrne client Banco Sabadell

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