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The European Council ended a highly active semester on the economic sanctions front with the adoption of its 17th and 18th economic sanctions packages (Russia Sanctions Packages or Sanctions Packages) against Russia for its...more
RUSSIA SANCTIONS - UK Lowers Oil Price Cap on Seaborn Russian Crude Oil, OFSI publishes related FAQs: On July 18, 2025, the UK Government, alongside the EU, announced that it will lower to Oil Price Cap on seaborne Russian...more
The Methane Finance Working Group (“MFWG”) has released a guidance document titled: Guidance for Including Methane Abatement in Oil and Gas Debt Structuring (“Guidance”). MFWG is described as a coalition of financial,...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on May 23, 2025, announced a significant relaxation of the comprehensive economic sanctions imposed on Syria through the issuance of General...more
The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in coordination with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Federal Bureau of...more
Between tariffs, tightening export controls, evolving sanctions, and ramped up enforcement, the cost and complexity of compliance is rising for oil and gas supply chains. ACI’s Trade & Sanctions Compliance for the Oil and...more
With unprecedented change and intensifying enforcement, now is the time to ensure your team is prepared for what’s ahead. Ensure that you don’t miss out on critical U.S. and international economic sanctions updates and the...more
The EU’s 16th sanctions package on Russia represents a significant expansion of measures, including additional restrictions on Russian banks, further oil and gas related restrictions, and new export and import restrictions. ...more
The European Union (EU) has reaffirmed its sanctions policy toward Russia by implementing two rounds of restrictive measures that are intended to further intensify pressure on Russia’s government and economy. Specifically,...more
On February 17, 2025, Indonesia’s President issued Government Regulation No. 8 of 2025, which amends the previous Government Regulation No. 36 of 2023 on Export Proceeds from Activities Relating to the Business and Management...more
As we discussed in our white paper “ESG and Public Pension Investing in 2023: A Year-to-Date Recap and Analysis”, there was a surge in legislative activity in 2023 among red states curtailing the use of environmental, social...more
In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has deployed a whole-of-government approach to impose sanctions and tighter export controls on Russia. This alert summarizes key economic sanctions imposed by...more
The Oklahoma State Treasurer added yet another bank to its blacklist of companies that are barred from doing business with the State of Oklahoma due to a “boycott [of] the oil-and-gas industry.” According to a 2022 law,...more
Contemporaneous with the European Union’s adoption of its 13th package of Russia sanctions, on February 23, 2024, the United States imposed sanctions against nearly 500 targets in continued response to Russia’s aggression...more
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nearing the end of its second year, the United Kingdom has continued to introduce sanctions measures against Russia, with the latest round announced on 14 December 2023....more
Last year, the State of Oklahoma enacted a law that “requires the state to stop doing business with financial companies that ‘boycott’ the oil-and-gas industry.” However, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, “officials...more
Holland & Knight's Venezuela Focus Team invites you to read our Venezuela Update, in which we discuss the latest news, trends and developments in Venezuela that impact the interests of businesses across all industry sectors. ...more
Welcome to the third edition of Shearman & Sterling’s Fifth Circuit Securities Litigation Quarterly. As public companies and financial institutions continue to migrate to Texas, our Texas-based securities litigation team...more
On March 21, 2023 the Oklahoma House of Representatives passed House Bill 2547, which claims to be “designed to continue protections of state pension funds from strategies that would be harmful to the state’s energy...more
On February 9, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions, pursuant to Executive Order 13846, against six Iran-based petrochemical manufacturers or their subsidiaries, as well...more
A global financial institution recently announced an updated energy policy, supplementing its previously issued 2030 targets. HSBC’s 2030 targets aimed, among other things, to reduce financed emissions in two carbon-intensive...more
To ring in the new year, Kentucky’s Treasurer, Allison Ball, announced a list of eleven financial institutions that she claims are engaged in “energy company boycotts.” According to Ball, the list “was crafted after careful...more
New CPI figures showed U.S. inflation topping the already high expectations for June. Prices were up 9.1% from a year earlier, all but confirming another big rate hike from the Fed as it struggles to “wrestle under control”...more
Auditing giant Ernst & Young will pay $100 million to U.S. authorities as part of a deal to resolve claims that “some of its auditors had cheated on ethics exams—and that the firm had done nothing to stop the practice.” That...more