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Cases · Markets, trade & operations · International trade, customs & sanctions

Manage sanctions exposure

Are we exposed to sanctions through a customer, supplier or route?

WONE Global reviews your exposure and controls under each relevant regime and advises on licences, changes or exits.

Countries in the typical case Netherlands · Türkiye

The situation

What is happening

A customer, supplier, bank or route is affected by sanctions.

What is at stake

Sanctions breaches lead to blocked payments, fines and reputational damage.

Who faces this

  • Corporations
  • Mid-sized companies

A scenario

Logistics companyMid-sized company · from Netherlands · in Turkey

It finds that a customer's owner has been added to a sanctions list.

Where it ends No sanctions breach.

A representative scenario of the work WONE Global coordinates, not a specific client’s matter.

Also asked as “Sanctions check on a counterparty”“Bank blocked our payment for sanctions”“A shipment has been blocked by sanctions screening”“A bank has flagged a payment linked to a sanctioned person”“Our international customer may be controlled by a sanctioned entity”“Our business partner has appeared on a restricted-party list”

The solution

How WONE Global handles it

WONE Global reviews your exposure and controls under each relevant regime and advises on licences, changes or exits.

Usually led by Anti-bribery, sanctions and compliance, with Customs, trade and export controls, Banking and capital and Contracts and commercial law.

Step by step, in the scenario

  1. First daysExposure assessed.
  2. Week 1Payments and shipments paused.
  3. Week 2Licence or exit.
  4. ThenControls updated.

Timings are typical. They depend on the countries, the authorities involved and how quickly documents are available.

Decisions

The decisions involved

  1. 01Which sanctions regimes apply to you
  2. 02Whether to freeze, report or wind down
  3. 03Licences or exemptions available

Outcomes

What you receive

  • A sanctions assessment
  • Required reports and licence applications
  • Updated screening procedures

This is a general guide. Your WONE Global professional confirms the work, timing and fees for your markets before anything starts.

Who handles it

Anti-bribery, sanctions and compliance, market by market

The status of the lead service in the markets that matter for this case. A named WONE Global Partner acts under their own licence; where none is in place yet, WONE Global confirms availability before anything else.

  1. Netherlandsin the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  2. Türkiyein the typical case On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  3. Cameroon WONE Global Partner Kelvin A. Egbe · Managing Partner Brief this Partner →
  4. China WONE Global Partner Roberto Gilardino · Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries Brief this Partner →
  5. Luxembourg WONE Global Partner Bruno Abbate · Owner - Managing Director Brief this Partner →
  6. India On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  7. Saudi Arabia On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  8. Singapore On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  9. United Arab Emirates On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  10. United Kingdom On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →
  11. United States On request Availability confirmed before any work begins Bring a requirement →

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Kelvin A. EgbeYaoundé · Cameroon

WONE Global Capability Partner · Cameroon

Kelvin A. Egbe

Managing Partner · Midas Law Group · Yaoundé

Attorney specialized in structuring, licensing, control, project permitting, patents, trademarks & Designs registration, venture financing, trade finance, regulatory intelligence & compliance, Financial markets, natural…

Roberto GilardinoShanghai · China

WONE Global Capability Partner · China

Roberto Gilardino

Regional Partner North Asia & additional countries · Horizons (Shanghai) Corporate Advisory Company · Shanghai

Roberto Gilardino is Regional Partner at Horizons, supervising the advisory’s activities in North Asia as well as additional countries (including Mongolia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, UAE, Cyprus and Malta).

Dr. Esteban Lucio MaccariBuenos Aires · Argentina

WONE Global Capability Partner · Argentina

Dr. Esteban Lucio Maccari

Managing Director · Maccari Adam & Asociados · Buenos Aires

He is a lawyer with a degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a degree in Spanish Law. He completed postgraduate studies in Strategic Business Management at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and the Glocoll at…

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