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President Obama has issued two new Executive Orders that impose significant new extraterritorial sanctions on persons who do business with Iran or Syria
On December 15, 2011, the United States Congress approved the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (H.R. 1540) (the “Act”), which contains, at Section 1245, new sanctions on Iran that potentially could bar a wide variety of nonU.S. financial institutions from access to the U.S. banking system
On July 11, 2012, the White House issued a triad of regulatory steps consisting of two General Licenses and an Executive Order that, taken together, liberalize current U.S. sanctions on Burma in several important respects, effective as of their issuance
On December 26, 2012, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued its long-anticipated "guidance" on Section 218 of the Iran Threat Reduction and
