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Sanctions

The sanctions team at Preston Turnbull offers comprehensive UK and EU sanctions advice to clients across the market.  Our team combines deep expertise with a practical understanding of the complex regulatory landscape, ensuring our clients receive tailored guidance on compliance, risk management and strategic decision-making in response to evolving sanctions regimes.

Advisory

We provide regular advice on the following issues:

Sanctions updates

Legislation and guidance interpretation

Coverage advice

Due diligence investigations

Licencing issues

Our recent experience includes

Advising on the scope of the G7 Russian oil price cap

Advising bunker suppliers on the sanctions risks of providing services to various Russian trades

Advising on the impact of the UK Legal Advisory Ban on P&I Clubs

Acting on behalf of ships denied access to EU ports under the EU port access ban

Advising on the status of UK sanctions on supplying jet fuel to Myanmar

Providing risk ratings to a P&I Club in respect of all weekly reported Russian trade

Disputes

We provide regular advice on the following issues:

Charterparty disputes

Coverage disputes

Allision/collision disputes

Our recent experience includes:

Acting on behalf of shipowners concerning charterers’ orders to call at Black Sea ports

Acting on behalf of charterers in a dispute concerning owners’ refusal to load an alleged sanctioned cargo

Arbitrating for a shipowner against a sanctioned entity in a dispute over termination of a charterparty

Acting on behalf of a P&I Club and vessel in respect of a dispute arising from an allision in Iranian waters

Representing a vessel involved in a collision with a sanctioned vessel

Talk to a specialist

Cate Baddeley

Catherine Baddeley

Partner

Ed Mills Webb

Ed Mills-Webb

Partner

Menelaos Nicolau

Menelaos Nicolaou

Partner

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