Sanctions, Financial Crimes and Export Controls

WilmerHale advises organizations confronting the most novel and dynamic sanctions, financial crimes, and export controls legal and regulatory challenges. Clients regularly turn to WilmerHale for strategic, practical guidance and legal defense that enables them to manage risk, respond to scrutiny and operate globally with confidence.

Advising at the Intersection of Global Regulatory Risk

Sanctions, financial crimes and export controls rarely present discrete compliance challenges. They increasingly interrelate—driven by national security and foreign policy dynamics, geopolitical developments, and heightened coordination among regulators and enforcement authorities.

WilmerHale’s integrated approach answers this moment. Our teams work seamlessly across these issues. Experienced practitioners—many of whom previously served in senior roles at key government agencies—bring extensive experience effectively advocating for our clients. WilmerHale helps clients anticipate and assess regulatory risk, design and implement effective compliance programs, navigate highly complex transactions, obtain government authorizations, respond to investigations, and defend against enforcement actions. Our technical capabilities and deep experience, our judgment, our vigorous advocacy, and our unified perspective enable the counsel our clients need most.

Sanctions and Export Controls
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WilmerHale counsels clients on the sanctions and export control laws and regulations of the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, and other jurisdictions, including compliance, licensing, policy, targeting, transactional risk, investigations, and enforcement. We advise on matters involving the regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and comparable legal and regulatory regimes worldwide.

Our lawyers help clients assess and manage sanctions and export control risk across global operations, supply chains, and cross border transactions—providing practical guidance informed by decades of experience both inside and outside the government.

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AML and Economic Sanctions Compliance and Enforcement
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WilmerHale advises financial institutions and companies on anti–money laundering and economic sanctions compliance, regulatory examinations, and enforcement matters. We assist clients with AML program design and enhancement, risk assessments, remediation, and responses to regulatory inquiries and investigations.

Drawing on extensive experience with bank regulators, enforcement agencies, and prosecutors, our team helps clients navigate complex compliance obligations while effectively managing supervisory, civil and criminal enforcement risk.

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