Last week, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) issued an interpretative guidance on section 560.545 of the Iranian Transactions Regulations which permits exports from the United States to Iran of services incidental to the exchange of personal information over…
A number of news reports, like this one, indicate that MV Eglantine was hijacked by Somali pirates yesterday near the Maldives and about 460 nautical miles west south west of India’s Cape Comorin. The scene of the hijacking was 1,800…
A report from the Associated Press suggests that private military and security companies providing protection to commercial shipping in pirate-infested waters have come up with a novel way of arming themselves without running into import and export restrictions of countries…
Well, even the White House now knows, and presumably the folks at the Office of Foreign Assets Control now know, that the Syrian dictator with the silly moustache, Bashar al-Assad, was possibly circumventing U.S. sanctions when he downloaded from iTunes…
So, this afternoon, I was on the phone with a client who had a question about the Cuba sanctions enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”). As I often do in these situations, I went to the OFAC…