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OFAC issues guidance and General License No. 4 concerning investment funds involving entities or persons subject to US sanctions against Libya

  • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
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  • Libya, USA
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  • April 12 2011

On April 8, 2011, the US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), issued guidance and a General License No.4 regarding US sanctions against Libya

Inside U.S. sanctions against Libya

  • Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC
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  • Libya, USA
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  • March 9 2011

The growing violence in Libya has lead to new sanctions against the Libyan government

Financial sanctions affecting Libya further update

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union, Global, Libya, United Kingdom, USA
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  • May 5 2011

As detailed in our March 2011 briefing, since February, the United Nations, the United States and the European Union have all imposed sanctions on the Libyan government and select Libyan companies, which to date have reportedly resulted in the freezing of Libyan state assets estimated at $120 billion

New economic sanctions imposed against Libya

  • Sidley Austin LLP
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  • Libya, USA
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  • March 18 2011

In response to the growing violence in Libya, the United States has imposed economic sanctions against Libya. All property interests of the Libyan government, certain senior officials and others implicated in human rights abuses have been blocked, and US persons have been barred from transferring or donating funds to, or having other business dealings with, those persons

Financial sanctions affecting Libya - update

  • Clifford Chance LLP
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  • European Union, Libya, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 22 2011

On 17 March 2011, the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution UNSCR 1973 (2011) (the "UN Resolution") concerning the situation in Libya and authorising 'all necessary measures' to protect civilians and civilian populated areas

Libya sanctions update

  • Wiley Rein LLP
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  • Australia, European Union, Global, Libya, United Kingdom, USA
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  • March 25 2011

This memorandum briefly updates our March 3, 2011 summary of international economic sanctions directed at the Libyan regime of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi

Imposition of broad new U.S. sanctions targeting the government of Libya

  • Baker Botts LLP
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  • Libya, USA
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  • March 4 2011

In response to the recent events occurring in Libya, the United States government has imposed a series of sanctions and other restrictions on transactions involving the government of Libya

U.S. toughens sanctions against Libya

  • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
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  • Libya, USA
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  • March 28 2011

The Office of Foreign Assets Control ("OFAC") of the United States Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions against certain foreign countries, entities and other Specially Designated Nationals ("SDNs") based on US foreign policy and national security goals

The US “blocking” measures against Libya cover more than SDNs

  • Squire Sanders
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  • Libya, USA
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  • June 2 2011

On February 25, 2011, one day before the UN Security Council endorsed economic sanctions against Libya, President Obama issued Executive Order 13566 imposing broad US sanctions against the country

Unblocking notices

  • Winston & Strawn LLP
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  • Libya, USA
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  • July 11 2011

On June 28th, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control ("OFAC") unblocked the assets of Shukri Mohammed Ghanem, the former Libyan oil minister whose property and interest in property had previously been subject to the federal government's Libyan sanctions