Insights

Foreign Investment Watch named Crowell & Moring partner Caroline E. Brown to its list of Top Advisors 2024. The list recognizes the “top advisors who provide advice and counsel concerning foreign investment and national security in the U.S. and abroad.”

Crowell & Moring’s International Trade Group has been named a Practice Group of the Year for 2023 by Law360.

Chambers and Partners has ranked 10 Crowell & Moring practice groups and 14 individual lawyers in the Chambers Global 2024 guide.

Nicole Sayegh Succar will be speaking on a panel at ACI’s 24th National Forum on Prepaid Accounts Compliance in New York on April 8th 2024. The panel will cover recent developments in AML & Sanctions and how lessons from those developments should inform compliance enhancements in the prepaid space and the fintech/payments space more generally.

On February 15th, Simeon Yerokun will speak on the panel "Global Business Considerations." This discussion will analyze hot topics in Trade both within the U.S. and Internationally, and will include discussion of supply chain resiliency, prohibitions on forced labor, trade policy, and the Inflation Reduction Act.

Aurifer Middle East and Global Legal Customs Association (GLCA) to host the GLCA Conference 2024. The conference, which is part of the programme of the GLCA Annual Meeting held in Dubai (UAE), organised under the sponsorship of Aurifer Middle East this year, will feature a hybrid (in-person and online) scientific session on February 8, 2024, 9:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. GST.

The conference will consist of six panels covering the major developments and latest trends in the global customs and international trade landscape. The broad range of topics covered during the scientific session include EU customs reform, customs compliance in UAE free zones, international trade sanctions, and the impact of bans on UAE banks for trade with Russia. Conference attendants will also have the opportunity to hear about business experiences in relation to the use of new technologies for customs clearance, track and trace, and compliance.

Crowell and Moring Partner David Stepp will speak on the panel “International Trade Sanctions: Russian, American and European perspectives.”

International trade and foreign investment laws are changing quickly, particularly as a result of the heated political environment in Washington, D.C., and rising tensions between the U.S. and China. Even companies that are traditionally out of the flood plain need to heed the potential for a 100-year flood!