International Trade Sanctions and Compliance

As international trade grows increasingly complex, sanctions regimes and export control regulations have become critically important for companies — both operationally and legally.

At GSG Attorneys at Law, we provide comprehensive sanctions compliance advisory services designed to help your company navigate these complex regulations, identify risks, and establish a secure and sustainable compliance framework.

Within the scope of the US, EU, and UK sanctions regimes, we advise companies on identifying nexus points that may connect their operations to international sanctions legislation, developing tailored sanctions compliance programmes aligned with the applicable regulatory framework, preparing risk matrices for the company's product portfolio — including raw materials and product components — designing operational procedures in line with the risk matrix, and conducting business partner screening.

Our services generally cover the following areas:

• Tailored Compliance Programme Development and Internal Compliance Policy Design: We assess your company's risk profile and develop a sector-specific sanctions compliance programme in accordance with US, EU, and UK sanctions legislation.
• Business Partner Screening (Due Diligence / KYC): We evaluate whether your business partners — both directly and indirectly involved in your transactions, including contractual counterparties, logistics providers, banks, insurers, freight and shipping companies, and all other parties to the transaction — pose any sanctions-related risk.
• Product and Service Portfolio Analysis, Risk Matrix, and Related Procedures under Sanctions and Export Controls: We identify the applicable regulatory framework and manage the export control compliance process in accordance with the relevant legislation (US, EU, or UK).
• Contract Review and Revision under Sanctions Legislation: We provide contract advisory services to manage sanctions risks and their potential consequences.
• Design of Customised Training Modules on International Trade Sanctions Compliance: We design tailored, sector-specific and company-specific training programmes for companies operating across a wide range of industries, including finance, logistics, chemicals, and others.
• Retrospective Transaction Audit and Remediation Services: We conduct compliance assessments of historical transactions, identify sanctions risks, and define remediation steps to strengthen the company's sanctions compliance programme.
• Sanctions Risk Assessment Based on Commercial Plans: Before entering new markets that carry sanctions risk or engaging with new business partners, we prepare transaction-specific compliance reports and conduct bespoke reviews for companies.