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GIR looks at the lawyers hired to represent Russians seeking to overturn their European Union sanctions listings.

13 July 2022

In the latest roundup, the UK’s financial services regulator bolsters its leadership team with three major appointments, while in the US, the State Department named a Columbia University professor as its new anti-corruption coordinator.

12 July 2022

Readers can now submit nominations for GIR’s eighth annual awards ceremony to be held in Washington, DC, on 17 November.

11 July 2022

In the latest counsel watch, Kobre & Kim is acting for sanctioned oligarch Roman Abramovich, and Winston & Strawn is acting for Mexican state energy company Pemex.

07 July 2022

In the latest people news update, a former SEC commissioner will be swapping courtrooms for classrooms as she leaves the agency to teach law at New York University, while a New Jersey fintech bank has bolstered its crypto compliance team with a new hire.

28 June 2022

Corporate criminal liability reform in the UK is at the mercy of political forces after the government’s law review body failed to outline a clear path forward.

21 June 2022

In the latest people news update, Danske Bank’s top compliance executive is set to become Rabobank’s chief financial economic crime officer, and Ropes & Gray has poached the US Department of Justice’s first in-house compliance expert.

17 June 2022

Preet Bharara, the former US attorney for the Southern District of New York, has joined the partnership at WilmerHale, the firm announced on 13 June.

13 June 2022

In the latest Counsel Watch, a round-up of the lawyers acting for Glencore in the US, the UK, Brazil, Switzerland and the Netherlands in corruption investigations that have so far led to criminal resolutions in three continents.

13 June 2022

Jaimie Nawaday was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York.

23 May 2022