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SANCTIONS ADVISORY SERVICES

Practical Sanctions Advice for Complex Cross-Border Business

From individual transactions to enterprise-wide sanctions frameworks, we help businesses understand their exposure, strengthen their controls and make defensible commercial decisions.

Specialist support across the sanctions lifecycle

✓Transaction and trade-specific sanctions advice
✓Ownership, control and indirect exposure reviews
✓Sanctions risk assessments, frameworks and controls
✓Independent review, remediation and emerging-risk support
HOW WE HELP

Specialist Advice Built Around Real-World Risk

Sanctions issues rarely arrive in isolation. They sit within payments, shipping routes, ownership structures, goods, intermediaries and commercial pressure. Our services are designed to help you understand the full picture and reach a practical, evidence-based decision.

Transaction & Trade Advisory

Clear sanctions analysis where a specific payment, trade or commercial relationship needs closer review.

  • Counterparty and transaction nexus analysis
  • Shipping, routing and jurisdictional exposure
  • Goods, end-use and trade context review
  • Documented escalation and decision support

Ownership & Control Reviews

Analyse complex structures and identify direct or indirect exposure to designated persons and restricted interests.

  • UBO and ownership-chain reviews
  • Control indicators and governance analysis
  • Indirect designated-party exposure
  • Escalation-ready findings and rationale

Sanctions Risk Assessments

Understand where sanctions risk sits across your business, customers, products, markets and transaction flows.

  • Enterprise-wide sanctions risk assessments
  • Customer and geographic exposure
  • Product, payment and channel risk
  • Risk-rating methodology and governance

Frameworks & Controls

Design or strengthen sanctions controls that are practical, proportionate and aligned to the way your business actually operates.

  • Policies and procedures
  • Governance and escalation frameworks
  • Screening and transaction-control design
  • Operating models, roles and responsibilities

Independent Reviews

Obtain an objective view of how effectively your sanctions framework is designed and operating.

  • Control effectiveness reviews
  • Gap analysis and maturity assessments
  • Issue validation and remediation support
  • Management-ready findings and priorities

Circumvention & Emerging Risk

Identify patterns that may indicate sanctions evasion, transshipment or the use of third-country intermediaries.

  • Third-country intermediary analysis
  • Transshipment and route-risk reviews
  • Sanctions-evasion indicators
  • Emerging geopolitical and enforcement risk
WHEN TO SPEAK TO US

When the Answer Is Not Obvious

The highest-risk sanctions decisions often arise where no single screening result gives you the answer. We help you assess the facts, understand the relevant sanctions nexus and document a defensible way forward.

A payment has been stopped by a bank.
You are unsure whether a transaction can proceed.
A counterparty has complex or opaque ownership.
Goods are moving through higher-risk jurisdictions.
Your bank is asking sanctions-related questions.
Management needs a documented, defensible decision.
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?

Two Practical Ways to Begin

Use our free assessment to understand your wider exposure, or use Nexus™ when you need a structured view of a specific transaction.

FREE EXPOSURE REVIEW

Free Sanctions Exposure Scan

Understand where sanctions risk may be entering your business across counterparties, goods, routes, payments and controls.

Business exposureControl gapsPriority actions
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NEXUS™ TRANSACTION RISK ASSESSMENT

Assess a Specific Transaction

Nexus™ provides structured transaction-level sanctions decision support across parties, jurisdictions, goods, shipping and payments.

Transaction analysisRisk driversPDF report
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HOW WE WORK

Clear, Focused and Commercially Practical

01

Understand the Issue

We establish the transaction, business context and specific concern that needs to be resolved.

02

Assess the Exposure

We analyse the relevant sanctions nexus, counterparties, jurisdictions, ownership and commercial facts.

03

Set Out the Options

We explain the key risks, practical options and any further information or controls that may be required.

04

Support the Decision

You receive clear, documented support designed to help management reach a defensible commercial decision.

SPECIALIST SANCTIONS SUPPORT

Specialist Support When the Answer Isn't Obvious

Tell us what you're dealing with. We'll help you identify the sanctions issues, understand the options and determine the appropriate next steps.

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