Sanctions Compliance

Our team of professionals engages in business intelligence to assist investors and companies in gaining a deeper understanding of sanctions risk within their portfolios, supply chains and operations. We provide clients with assessments covering sanctions trends, geopolitical horizon scanning insights and our personalized recommendations to aid in sanctions compliance efforts, strategic planning, and other forward-thinking business endeavors.

What We Offer

Sanctions Risk Assessments

We assist in identifying inherent sanctions risks within our client business model including those present in its customer bases, geographic reach, products and devices. We then assist in developing controls to mitigate those risks and to determine the clients’ overall sanction risk appetite.

Investment and counterparty due diligence

We provide thorough pre-relationship and pre-investment due diligence services, investigating the ownership, control, operations, and leadership of targeted entities. Our assessments include evaluations of critical or higher-risk suppliers and clients, along with an analysis of the susceptibility of entities or individuals to potential future sanctions. Furthermore, we offer support for ventures into sanctioned territories by mapping out the business interests of sanctioned entities within a particular country or sector, empowering you to manage your exposure preemptively. Additionally, we offer assessments on the potential ramifications if existing third parties are designated under evolving sanctions regimes, providing tailored advice on how to navigate such situations within the context of your specific business operations.

Assessment of sanctions screening

We evaluate whether the sanction screening processes are aligned to a regulated entity’s sanctions risk profile and identify areas of weaknesses that may increase the risk of sanctions breaches.

Sanctions compliance programme

We assist our clients in designing and implementing a comprehensive sanctions framework based on the sanctions reporting obligations and sanctions exposures they may have.

Sanctions audit and internal reviews

We perform independent reviews of our clients’ sanction compliance programme and report to the board on senior management on its effectiveness.

Sanctions Investigations

When a client suspects that they are dealing with a sanctioned party or that a sanctions violation has occurred, we will work with our clients and/or their legal counsel and compliance teams to investigate. Our sanctions professionals are experts in conducting sanctions related investigations, including identifying and collecting the relevant documentary information, analyzing shipping data, and analyzing financial records to trace transactions and the flow of money.