Well, Implementation Day has come and gone. Hassan Rouhani peeked out of his house, did not see his shadow, and his handlers declared that winter would soon be over … at least if you’re in Europe. If you’re in the United States,…
Back in September, we reported on industry criticism of the list published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) of medical devices eligible for export to Iran without a license for certain glaring omissions, namely, infant warmers used in maternity…
BMO Harris Bank on Wednesday escaped an OFAC fine, even though it admitted to having processed six funds transfers totaling $67,357 representing payment by a customer of sums to an Iranian entity from which the customer had purchased Persian rugs.…
Crédit Agricole just agreed to pay $787.3 million to settle charges that it violated the U.S. sanctions on Iran and other countries by stripping references to those countries in communications sent to U.S. banks to process dollar-based transactions. And to…
An unfortunate issue for publicly traded companies that file voluntary disclosures is what seems to be an increasing trend: plaintiffs’ lawyers specializing in derivative shareholder suits circling the company looking for a kill. This seems to be particularly true if…