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Understanding export controls in UK sanctions legislation relating to Russia: issues for lenders

19 March 2024 / Author(s): Jacqueline Cook
Issue: November 2022 / Categories: Feature

As exports from the UK to, or for use in, Russia since Spring 2022, have been the subject of rapidly changing restrictions, it has been tricky to keep track of how to navigate and interpret the legislation. In this article Jacqueline Cook, Of Counsel and Senior Knowledge Development Lawyer at Sullivan & Worcester UK LLP, looks at where the UK rules relating to Russia sit and explores how the legislation borrows concepts from commercial law to identify the assets.

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