Recently by Tamer A. Soliman
Anti-Corruption
Reviewing Trade Through A Different Lens – The Middle East
Editor: Please tell our readers about the trade areas about which you advise both corporate and government clients. When did you start this practice? Soliman: I started practicing about 13 years ago in Washington, DC with Akin Gump, a firm I found attractive because of its reputation as a...
Read MoreNew Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines Issued By OFAC
On September 8, 2008, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued new Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines ("Guidelines") as an interim final rule establishing the new framework by which the agency will assess penalties under last year's statutory increase in the maximum...
Read MoreDeveloping And Implementing An Internal Compliance Program To Address Economic Sanctions Concerns - Part II
Editor's Note: Part I of this article appeared in the April, 2007 issue of The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel discussing the importance of constructing internal compliance programs ("ICP"s) to detect and prevent a company from violating economic sanctions or export laws in keeping with the...
Read MoreDeveloping And Implementing An Internal Compliance Program To Address Economic Sanctions Concerns - Part I
Introduction The increasing integration of the world economy, combined with the increasing focus on security in the post-September 11th environment, provides U.S. businesses with a multitude of new business opportunities as well as higher risk of exposure. Companies pursuing business leads...
Read MoreProject: Homeland Security - Law Firms C-TPAT: Recent Developments And The Road Ahead
In the aftermath of September 11, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) responded quickly by initiating a joint government-private sector partnership called the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT). As is well-known, C-TPAT is a program designed to enlist the international trade...
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