Brian and Tim try to decipher recent signals that JCPOA 2.0 may be in trouble and share their thoughts on what to look for during the coming weeks. We next turn to the new multilateral sanctions recently imposed on Belarus before checking in on China to discuss the merciful end of the #tiktokban (and what’s on the horizon under E.O. 14034), as well as recent aggressive actions by the U.S. targeting forced labor. Finally, in the Lightning Round, we do a quick dissection of the court decision dismissing Oleg Deripaska’s challenge to his SDN listing and offer thoughts on OFAC’s recent COVID-related general licenses and guidance.
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Roadmap:
Introduction
The Rundown
Is JCPOA 2.0 Going Down in Flames?
New Belarus Sanctions
End of TikTok Ban and New E.O. Protecting Sensitive Data
Latest U.S. Actions Targeting Forced Labor in Xinjiang
Lightning Round
Deripaska Lawsuit Dismissed
OFAC GLs and Guidance re COVID Relief
Final Thoughts
***Stay sanctions free.***
Day: July 1, 2021
Categories
Canadian Sanctions on Belarus
Allied with the US, UK and the EU, Canada rolls out additional sanctions on Belarus, prohibiting financial services and dealing in property of the listed persons.
Join Affiliated Monitor’s Rod Grandon, Jenner & Block Partner, David Robbins, and former Engility Holdings, Inc. General Counsel, Tom Miiller, for an in-depth discussion focusing on crisis management from the perspectives of a General Counsel, outside legal counsel, and federal acquisition official.
12 O’Clock High, a podcast on business leadership brings together stories from history, the arts and movies, research and current events to consider leadership lessons. In this episode, Richard Lummis and Tom Fox begin a 10-part summer series on leadership lessons from biographies found in Plutarch’s Lives. Each week we will pair an ancient Greek and Roman to learn about their lives, the comparison and contrast between the two men and what leadership lessons with might draw from their lives. In today’s episode we look at the Greek Alcibiades and the Roman Coriolanus. Highlights include:
· Introduction of Plutarch’s Lives as historical work.
· Lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus.
· Comparison in the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus.
· What leadership lessons can be drawn from the lives of Alcibiades and Coriolanus.
Resources
Plutarch’s Lives by Bill Thayer
See also Stephen Pressfield book: The Tides of War, for a historical novel on Alcibiades.
In this episode of MoForecast, Morrison & Foerster partner James Koukios speaks with Washington, D.C.-based antitrust partners Alex Okuliar and David Shaw about what to expect in antitrust enforcement under the Biden administration.
The MoForecast podcast series, produced by global law firm Morrison & Foerster, looks into what we saw in the legal landscape under the Trump administration and how policies might change under President Biden by leveraging the firm’s decades of private practice experience and insight from former government roles. Discover more MoForecast episodes.
About the Speakers
James Koukios is co-chair of Morrison & Foerster’s Securities Litigation, Enforcement, and White Collar Defense Group and serves as co-head of the FCPA + Global Anti-Corruption Practice. James represents companies and individuals in high‑stakes government enforcement actions and complex internal investigations. He previously served as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), where he was the lead prosecutor in two landmark FCPA related trials: United States v. Esquenazi and United States v. Duperval. While at DOJ, James also served as lead prosecutor in United States v. AEY Inc., a defense procurement fraud and export licensing case that served as the basis for the 2016 film War Dogs. He also previously served as Special Counsel to then-FBI Director Robert S. Mueller, III.
James is joined in this episode by:
- Alex Okuliar, partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Washington, D.C. office and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Enforcement in the Antitrust Division of the DOJ
- David Shaw, partner in Morrison & Foerster’s Washington, D.C. office and former Deputy Chief of Staff and Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in the Antitrust Division of the DOJ
The Morrison & Foerster team is made up of talented defense lawyers, including many who once served as prosecutors and regulators. The team helps firm clients resolve their legal issues by immersing themselves in how their clients think and operate. Learn more about the firm’s Investigations + White Collar Defense and Antitrust Law groups.
