Export Controls and Sanctions
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KA-Legal's senior Partner, Dr. Konstantinos Adamantopoulos, is one of Europe's leading advisors to Governments and corporate entities in the area of sanctions and export controls. KA-Legal helps clients understand and apply the rules and develops compliance programmes.
KA-Legal regularly conducts M&A due diligence for corporate clients. Konstantinos frequently represents corporates and non governmental organisations in sanctions and export controls related litigation before EU courts. |
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Our recent experience includes:
- Specialist plastic membrane manufacturer: Advising a major multinational specialized chemicals manufacturer on exports of outdoors protective garments capable of suppressing thermal signature to several third countries under the EU dual use goods regulations.
- International battery producer: Advising an international battery producer in customs proceedings alleging the export of dual-use goods without prior export classification. The case involved complex legal issues relating to exhaustion of jurisdiction when dual-use goods are transferred between Member States and undergo working and processing before being exported. The case was settled with the authorities in Germany and Italy.
- Export of dual use goods to embargo countries: Advising a client on compliance with EU and German export controls laws in relation to exporting aeronautics goods to and providing technical assistance for goods located in an embargo country.
- Export of certain car paints: Advising an international company on the EU and national export control rules governing the export of certain car paints to a military in the Middle East. The focus of the advice was on EU and national export control rules for military and dual-use goods as well as embargos and denied persons.
- Export of certain coatings for airplanes: Advising an international company on the EU and national export control rules governing the export of certain coatings for airplanes to an Indian aeroplane manufacturer.
- Compliance programmes and self assessment: Devising and conducting several export controls compliance programmes for major international corporations, including a major international industrial battery manufacturer. Advising several multinational corporate clients on the merits of proceeding with voluntary reports to relevant authorities to achieve legal certainty and clarification of "grey product definition areas".
- Due Diligence: Advising two major private equity funds in the context of their proposed acquisitions and performing due diligence on acquisition targets in the oil and IT sectors to establish these targets' compliance under EU and relevant national export controls and sanctions laws.
- EU Ivory Coast Sanctions: Advising a major international commodities trader regarding compliance with the EU Sanctions Regime applicable against Ivory Coast at the time.
- EU Iran Sanctions: Advising a major international shipping company regarding the application of the EU Iran Sanctions Regulations to this company's insurance and reinsurance contracts.
- EU Iran Sanctions: Advising a major EU oil refining company on compliance with EU Iran sanctions of payments to an Iranian crude oil supplier.
- EU Litigation: Successfully representing a Singaporean Shipping Company before EU Courts in a legal challenge of this company's listing under the EU Iran sanctions.
- EU Sanctions and Sports: Advising a major international sport association with regard to the listing of a football club under EU sanctions regulations applicable against Belarus and on the scope of the "cultural exemption" of the Treaty for the Functioning of the EU.
