Sanctions

Navigate sanctions complexity with confidence: your proactive partner in global compliance.
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Overview

Sanctions laws play an increasingly prominent role in business. These laws are complex and rapidly evolving, creating challenges for companies and giving rise to compliance risks.  Failure to comply with these laws can result in significant penalties, both civil and criminal, as well as reputational harm. It is therefore essential that businesses proactively manage sanctions risk. 

Fasken has one of Canada’s premier sanctions teams and has worked on the most high-profile and sensitive matters. We assist clients by:

  • Advising on sanctions compliance, including by creating compliance programs
  • Advising on sanctions risk in the context of transactions and M&A
  • Obtaining sanctions permits or licenses for specific transactions
  • Managing relationships with regulators
  • Advising on enforcement actions

Team

Primary Contacts
  • Clifford Sosnow, Partner | Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Toronto, ON | Ottawa, ON, +1 613 696 6876, csosnow@fasken.com
  • Christopher Little, Associate | Procurement, Ottawa, ON, +1 613 696 6928, chlittle@fasken.com
Clifford Sosnow Ottawa Lawyer Clifford Sosnow Partner | Anti-Bribery and Corruption Toronto, ON Ottawa, ON +1 613 696 6876
Christopher Little Ottawa Lawyer Christopher Little Associate | Procurement Ottawa, ON +1 613 696 6928
All Members

Client Work

  • Provincial crown agency seeks guidance on compliance, [Deal - Confidential Client], Crown agency's billion-dollar infra procurements meet stringent sanctions compliance standards.
  • Global Steel Manufacturer receives legal expertise on sanctions in acquisition bid, [Deal - Confidential Client], Global Steel Manufacturer in navigating sanctions complexities during an acquisition bid, addressing Canadian and UK shareholders' compliance within the target's parent company structure.
  • Sports organization's legal navigation of economic sanctions crucial for transaction, [Deal - Confidential Client], Addressing complex economic sanctions in the sale of a major sports organization involving a sanctioned individual.
  • Energy Giant obtains Canadian Sanctions Law guidance regarding Gazprom's German Subsidiaries, [Deal - Confidential Client], Canadian Sanctions and Gazprom’s German Subsidiaries: Legal Guidance for a North American Energy Company
  • International provider of subsea equipment obtains guidance with Canadian sanctions law issue, [Case - Confidential Client], An international provider of subsea equipment and technologies interacts with a financial institution over concerns that the client’s Canadian subsidiary may violate sanctions law.
Deal Advised Confidential Client Provincial crown agency seeks guidance on compliance Crown agency's billion-dollar infra procurements meet stringent sanctions compliance standards. Read more
Deal Advised Confidential Client Global Steel Manufacturer receives legal expertise on sanctions in acquisition bid Global Steel Manufacturer in navigating sanctions complexities during an acquisition bid, addressing Canadian and UK shareholders' compliance within the target's parent company structure. Read more
Deal Advised Confidential Client Sports organization's legal navigation of economic sanctions crucial for transaction Addressing complex economic sanctions in the sale of a major sports organization involving a sanctioned individual. Read more
Deal Advised Confidential Client Energy Giant obtains Canadian Sanctions Law guidance regarding Gazprom's German Subsidiaries Canadian Sanctions and Gazprom’s German Subsidiaries: Legal Guidance for a North American Energy Company Read more
Case Represented Confidential Client International provider of subsea equipment obtains guidance with Canadian sanctions law issue An international provider of subsea equipment and technologies interacts with a financial institution over concerns that the client’s Canadian subsidiary may violate sanctions law. Read more