Navigating sanctions in a shifting global landscape
Sanctions, tariff, export control and national security regimes led by the US and other governments can create real compliance challenges for businesses, banks and investors. As governments increasingly use sanctions to promote their values or force political outcomes, businesses need practical ways to continue to operate as these complex frameworks shift.
Our team brings a unique mix of skills from political risk, compliance, due diligence, analytics and forensic investigations. We work alongside your legal and compliance teams to develop trade compliance approaches that protect your business and keep you compliant, while maintaining operational flexibility.
Country risk assessments and monitoring
We provide practical country-level assessments on the scope, breadth and enforcement history of sanctions and trade compliance regimes, with advice on doing business in regions where the trade rules have recently changed. Our ongoing monitoring helps you stay ahead of developments that could affect your operations.
Investment and counterparty due diligence
Before you enter into relationships or make investments, we can investigate ownership structures, operations, leadership teams, and key suppliers or clients to understand sanctions exposure. We can also map sanctioned entities' business interests in specific countries or sectors, helping you proactively manage any potential risk exposure.
Sanctions regimes evolve, so we help you anticipate future risk by assessing the implications of any existing third parties being designated in the future - and offer you actionable advice on how to react given your business context.
Investigate and resolve problems and crises
When trade compliance issues arise, we investigate breaches through a comprehensive suite of services:
- Data analytics
- Digital forensics
- eDiscovery, data collection and hosting
- Business intelligence and due diligence
- Document review
- Forensic accounting
- Investigative interviews
We are trusted partners, managing investigations on behalf of banks, as well as corporates and investors, working alongside legal and compliance teams. We can also implement practical remedial steps to strengthen your trade compliance programs after an investigation. Find out more >
Improve governance and compliance processes
Our specialists develop and implement sanctions compliance programmes and monitoring solutions based on government guidance and relevant enforcement lessons from your industry. We tailor your trade compliance programme, aligning to key authorities like the US Office of Foreign Asset Control, while adapting to your specific needs.
We also monitor changes in sanctions across multiple countries and proactively monitor third-party data to identify complex ownership structures and connections to sanctioned entities.
Automated screening & monitoring
Control Risks offers technology driven automated screening solutions to scale and automate the screening of third parties for sanctions and other risk factors, conduct ongoing monitoring, and highlight entities of relevance for further scrutiny. Find out more >
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