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Weekly Blockchain Blog - December 2024

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New Crypto Products Announced by Financial Services Firms, Exchanges, DEXs - A major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange recently announced that it has integrated a major mobile payments application into its Onramp tool to enable...more

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President Trump Imposes Sanctions on Companies Doing Business with Iran’s Construction, Mining, Manufacturing and Textiles...

On January 10, 2020, President Trump issued a new Executive Order that imposes the latest in a series of economic sanctions on Iran. Individuals and entities violating these and other sanctions on Iran can face significant...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Treasury Imposes Additional Restrictions on Remittances to Cuba and “U-Turn” Transactions

On September 9, 2019, the Trump administration implemented additional U.S. sanctions on Cuba by restricting personal remittances to Cuba and eliminating authorization for U.S. banks to process “U-turn” transactions involving...more

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Trump Administration Imposes Broad Sanctions on the Government of Venezuela

• In a further escalation of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela in support of its efforts to oust the regime of Nicolás Maduro, on August 5, 2019, the Trump administration imposed comprehensive sanctions on the Government of...more

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U.S. Imposes Comprehensive Sanctions Blocking Property of the Government of Venezuela

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• President Donald Trump has issued an Executive Order expanding the current sanctions relating to Venezuela by blocking all property and interests in property of the government of Venezuela and the Nicolás Maduro regime. ...more

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Trump Administration Authorizes Lawsuits Against Companies that Deal in Property Confiscated by the Cuban Government and Tightens...

• Yesterday, May 2, the United States government allowed implementation of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act, for the first time since the law was enacted in 1996, to permit U.S. nationals to sue persons that “traffic” in...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Podcast: Venezuela – The Roots and Future of U.S. Sanctions

In this episode, Akin Gump public law and policy senior advisor and former U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and international trade partner Nnedi Ifudu discuss U.S. sanctions on Venezuela. Among the topics covered: • the...more

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Recent U.S. Sanctions Designations Create Additional Risks for Companies Doing Business with Venezuela

• OFAC recently added a Moscow-based Russian-Venezuelan joint venture bank, Evrofinance Mosnarbank (“Evrofinance”), to the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (the “SDN List”) for engaging in sanctions...more

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United States Expands Venezuela Sanctions, Targets PdVSA

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On January 28, 2019, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA) on the List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List). PdVSA...more

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OFAC Designates Petroleos de Venezuela S.A.; U.S. Expands Sanctions on Venezuelan Government - Additional Measures Also Taken...

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• Pursuant to Executive Order 13850 (E.O. 13850), the U.S. Department of the Treasury's (Treasury) Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PdVSA), effectively blocking PdVSA's property...more

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OFAC Begins to Re-Impose Iran Sanctions and Expands Reach of Previous Sanctions

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The Trump Administration issued a new executive order on August 6, 2018, in order to reimpose the first tranche of the Iran sanctions lifted by the former Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (“JCPOA”). ...more

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Red Notice Newsletter - Arabic

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – New Unaoil Charges by U.K. Serious Fraud Office – On May 22, 2018, the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged two additional individuals in the ongoing probe related to...more

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Red Notice Newsletter - Spanish

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – New Unaoil Charges by U.K. Serious Fraud Office – On May 22, 2018, the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged two additional individuals in the ongoing probe related to...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - Russian

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – New Unaoil Charges by U.K. Serious Fraud Office – On May 22, 2018, the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged two additional individuals in the ongoing probe related to...more

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Red Notice Newsletter - Chinese

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – New Unaoil Charges by U.K. Serious Fraud Office – On May 22, 2018, the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged two additional individuals in the ongoing probe related to...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Red Notice Newsletter - May 2018

ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS – New Unaoil Charges by U.K. Serious Fraud Office – On May 22, 2018, the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) charged two additional individuals in the ongoing probe related to...more

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OFAC Issues Updated General Licenses Clarifying and Extending Authorized Activities with Russian Sanctioned Entities

• On May 1, 2018, OFAC issued General License 13A authorizing the divestment or transfer of certain debt, equity or other holdings issued by EN+ Group, GAZ Group or United Company RUSAL PLC, as well as entities in which such...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

OFAC Sanctions Leading Russian Businessmen, Government Officials and Companies

• On April 6, 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) placed seven prominent Russian businessmen, 12 companies, 17 senior Russian government officials, and a state-owned Russian...more

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U.S. imposes sanctions on Russian individuals, their companies, and Russian government officials

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Today, the Trump Administration designated multiple Russian targets, including several wealthy individuals and their companies, as Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs). These designations of major companies represent the...more

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Trump Administration Sets Approach to Implementation of New Russia Sanctions

In recent weeks, the U.S. government has taken a number of significant steps to implement sanctions on Russia under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), which President Donald Trump signed into...more

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Implementing CAATSA - OFAC Issues Amended Russian-Related Sectoral Sanctions Under Directives 1 and 2

On September 29, 2017, OFAC modified Directives 1 and 2 of Executive Order 13662 to reduce the permissible maturity for new debt issued by Russian financial and energy entities designated under these directives, as well as...more

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Post-Election Update on Cuba

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New Administration’s Cuba Policy Plans - Prior to President Trump’s inauguration, and in an effort to continue normalizing U.S.-Cuba relations, President Obama ended the "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy which since 1995 has...more

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