On day two of the London International Investigations and Asset Recovery Conference, (LIIARC), Collas Crill partner Nin Ritchie will be joined by John Binns of BCL Solicitors and Rachel Barnes KC of 3 Raymond Buildings to discuss the future of international criminal enforcement.
The panel session, which takes place from 10.30am - 12pm on Wednesday 26 November, is titled
Sanctions investigation and enforcement in the new (wild) west: Have the sheriffs left town?
In the world of financial crime, the US has been the international policeman throughout most of our professional lifetimes. For better or worse, the US' self-appointed role was predictable: Western governments could shape their policies and laws around the US lead; those advising western businesses and citizens could advise accordingly.
The Trump Administration's dramatic re-set to a more transactional USA on the international stage threatens chaos. Has the sheriff handed in its badge and gun?
With wars in Ukraine and Gaza, a nuclear North Korea, an increasingly militaristic China with closer alignment with Russia and Iran, and lack of stable government across much of Africa, more than ever Western businesses face serious risk as friends become enemies and vice versa. We know that nature abhors a vacuum. What will fill it? Predictable and stable UK/EU based regulation? A minefield of conflicting national laws, rules and local practices? Shifting alliances of superstates and trading blocs where only wealth and might make right?
The panel of experts in international sanctions and financial crime will give their views about what comes next and how we in the UK and offshore can prepare for it.
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