Raymond Rif
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Articles
Trump Administration Gives Teeth to Pentagon List and Restricts U.S. Investment in Publicly Traded Securities of Chinese Military Companies Operating in the United States
China, USA - November 16 2020 Over the past summer, prompted by a bipartisan Congressional letter identifying a two‑decade‑old statute as an unused tool in confronting China’s…
Reema Shocair Ali, John P. Carlin, Jiang Liu, John E. Smith, Nicholas J. Spiliotes
OFAC 2020 Year in Review
China, Cuba, Hong Kong, Iran, Russia, USA - February 16 2021 In too many ways to count, 2020 was an extraordinary year. As we move into 2021 with optimism for an end to the pandemic and better days ahead, we…
Reema Shocair Ali, Panagiotis C. Bayz, Andrea L. Delisi, Brandon L. Van Grack, John E. Smith
Defense Bill Aims Additional Sanctions at Turkey, Russia, and China
China, Russia, Turkey - December 14 2020 One of the widest-ranging bills of the U.S. Congress’s legislative year, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA), is…
No More Cuban Cigars or Rum: Trump Administration Tightens Cuban Sanctions, Again
Cuba, USA - September 28 2020 On Wednesday, September 23, 2020, the Trump Administration, via the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”), announced…
Saqib Alam, Panagiotis C. Bayz, Felix Helmstädter, John E. Smith
Strategic Competition Act: Creating More Tools to Counter China’s Expanding Influence
China, USA - April 28 2021 On April 8, 2021, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Senator Robert Menendez (D-New Jersey), and the Committee’s ranking member, Jim…
David Allman, Jonathan M. Babcock, Brandon L. Van Grack, Charles L. Capito III
