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OFAC De-listing Lawyers

OFAC sanctions are premised on ensuring correct future conduct, not punishing prior alleged misconduct. Nevertheless, placement on the OFAC’s
Specially Designated Nationals (SDNs) list can have devastating business ramifications for targeted individuals and entities of any size and industry,
including reputational damage, business disruption, and loss of assets. However, these sudden and severe designations can be removed if an SDN
can demonstrate a factual or legal error in the listing or provide sufficient evidence of changed circumstances.

Seiden Law specializes in the removal of individuals and business entities from the OFAC sanctions list, possessing the necessary skills, global and
US contacts, and expertise to conduct thorough internal investigations and identify the reasons for designation and plan for mitigation and
removal. From locating errors in designations, advising clients on how to engage with OFAC in a collegial manner, and developing various
comprehensive strategies for corporate restructuring, governance enhancements, accountability measures, and personnel changes, the firm has
generated a successful track record of facilitating the withdrawal of SDN’s.

OUR REPRESENTATIVE CASE WORK INCLUDES:

  • Seiden Law represents a foreign global entity, who is involved with the export of fossil fuels, and currently under sanction by the
    United States Office of Foreign Assets Control.
  • Seiden Law is counsel for a foreign professional service provider accused of facilitating offshore holdings for Russian oligarchs.
  • Seiden Law represented a global mining conglomerate headquartered in Europe which had several subsidiaries sanctioned by the US Office of Foreign Asset Control. After months of representing the mining conglomerate, our client’s subsidiaries were fully removed
    from the OFAC sanctions list.
  • Seiden Law represented a foreign government general who was sanctioned by OFAC under the Global Magnitsky Act. Our team was
    able to successfully demonstrate that he had been wrongly accused and was thereafter removed from the sanctions list.

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