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UK Weekly Sanctions Update - Week Of February 26, 2024

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In this weekly update, we summarise the most notable updates in the UK sanctions world. ...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

OFAC Year in Review 2023 – Part 1

2023 was another record year for U.S. sanctions and the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Most prominently, OFAC continued to impose significant additional sanctions on Russia in...more

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US, EU and UK Adopt New Russia Sanctions and Export Controls as Ukraine War Hits Two-Year Mark

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Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia on February 24, 2022, the United States ("US"), the European Union ("EU"), and the United Kingdom ("UK") adopted—together with their allies—successive waves of sanctions, in an...more

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European Union Adopts 12th Sanctions Package Against Russia

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On December 18, 2023, the European Union ("EU") adopted its 12th sanctions package against Russia. The new package introduces additional asset freeze measures, together with amendments to the EU asset freeze framework...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

FY24 NDAA: What to Watch Going into Conference

Welcome back to Washington where funding the government prior to the beginning of the fiscal year may take top billing, but behind the scenes the Armed Services Committees will begin work in earnest to conference the Fiscal...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

Cyberattacks on the Energy Sector Continue to Rise

Cyberattacks on the energy sector have been rapidly growing since 2017, and we saw an all-time high of cyberattack events on the sector in 2022. The energy sector is particularly vulnerable due to these types of attacks due...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

Canadian Sanctions Update: Recent Regulatory and Judicial Developments

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In this post, we describe the economic sanctions imposed by Canada since our November 5, 2022 update, as well as Russian asset freezing order and a judicial decision in the sanctions law area. We expect more sanctions and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

EU Adopts 10th Set of Sanctions Against Russia and Strengthens Enforcement and Anti-Circumvention Measures

The European Union (EU)’s tenth package of sanctions against Russia, adopted 25 February 2023, imposed an asset freeze against 121 individuals and entities and expanded the scope of sectoral sanctions....more

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Ankura CTIX FLASH Update - December 2022 - 2

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Colombian Energy Provider Empresas Públicas de Medellín Suffers ALPHV Ransomware Attack - Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM), one of Colombia's largest public energy, water, gas, sanitation, and telecommunication...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

New Canadian Sanctions Against Russia Impact Service Providers in the Mining, Oil and Gas and Chemical Sectors

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In this post, we describe the Government of Canada’s new ban on certain services to Russia’s extractive resource and refining and chemical manufacturing sectors. As discussed below, the key points are: The Canadian...more

Wiley Rein LLP

RSA Conference Day 1: The Only Constant is Change

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I am at the RSA Conference 2022 in San Francisco, my first time as a member of the private sector, since retiring from the FBI last year. I attended one of the keynotes on the first day of the conference, in between panels on...more

Jones Day

The War in Ukraine: Downstream Ripple Effects on the European Gas Market

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European energy companies face unprecedented uncertainty as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A potential reduction or cessation of Russian gas imports is not unforeseeable and would invariably affect all market...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Possible Cyberwarfare? Here’s How to Stay Armed.

On March 18, 2022, President Biden issued a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (the “March 18th letter”) requesting that he secure California’s computer systems and critical infrastructure in light of recent Russian...more

Burr & Forman

FINRA Warns Against Russian-Sponsored Cyber Attacks

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In its April 27 Weekly Update, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (“FINRA”) National Cause and Financial Crimes Detection program urged FINRA member firms to review a cyber-threat alert arising from Russia’s...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Intelligence Points to Likely Russian Attacks on Critical Infrastructure

The cybersecurity authorities of the United States (including CISA, FBI, NSA and DOE), Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) on April 20, 2022, “to warn...more

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US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand Issue Advisory on Russian State-Sponsored and Criminal Cyber Threats to Critical...

The cybersecurity authorities of the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to warn organizations that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could...more

Adams and Reese LLP

Critical Infrastructure Providers Face New Cybersecurity Reporting Requirements

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On Tuesday, March 15, President Joe Biden signed into law a $1.5 trillion government funding bill that included new legislation mandating critical infrastructure owners and operators to report a substantial cyber-attack and...more

Miller Canfield

Preparing for Cyberattacks and Limiting Liability

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The U.S. government and military experts have been warning U.S. companies that Russia may launch significant cyberattacks against critical infrastructure, financial institutions and businesses in retaliation for the sanctions...more

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The US Government Has a New Stopwatch for Cyber Incident Reporting: What You Need to Know Now

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Amid the escalating conflict in Ukraine and concerns of Russian cyber threats to the United States, President Joe Biden recently signed a $1.5 trillion government spending deal with serious cybersecurity reporting obligations...more

Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC

Federal Agency Issues ‘Shields Up’ Warning regarding Preparation for Disruptive Cyber Activity

The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has issued a rare “shields up” warning regarding cybersecurity attacks, saying that every organization, of every size, should be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

U.S. Economic Sanctions Against Russia Grow Amid the Ukraine Crisis: What Businesses Need to Know

U.S. economic sanctions against Russian interests have been building in response to the developing situation between the Russian Federation and Ukraine....more

Dechert LLP

Western Countries Issue Coordinated Sanctions Following Russia’s Actions in Ukrainian Territories

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Russia's Actions - On February 21, 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed two executive orders recognizing the DNR/LNR Regions as “sovereign and independent states.”...more

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Preparing for and Mitigating Foreign Influence Operations Targeting Critical Infrastructure (i.e., Dealing with the Fallout from...

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (“CISA”) has just released CISA Insights: Preparing for and Mitigating Foreign Influence Operations Targeting Critical Infrastructure, which provides proactive steps...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Hot Topics in International Trade - February 2022: Incursion and World Trade, and What Ties Them Together: The Benjamins, From a...

If you wake up each day, grab a cup of coffee, and turn on the world news, or CNN, like I do here in the U.S., one could obviously become a little pessimistic about our future together on this planet. I say, fear not, and...more

The Volkov Law Group

The Coming Trade Sanctions Against Russia

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President Putin is making sure that Russia dominates the early 2022 headlines.  As Russia aligns its resources to invade Ukraine, the U.S. and European countries prepare to respond aggressively.  It appears that nothing will...more

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