ACSS London Chapter Event

British Sanctions Roundup: Brexit, OFSI, and the New UK Sanctions Landscape

Speakers:
Maya Lester QC, Brick Court Chambers |
Chloe Cina, Deutsche Bank

Moderator:
Tom Cornell, ACSS Chapter Chair

Date: Thursday, Dec 10, 2020

Time:
10:00 AM – 11:15 AM EST

03:00 PM – 04:15 PM London

04:00 PM – 05:15 PM Amsterdam

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Maya Lester QC

Senior Barrister

Brick Court Chambers

Maya Lester QC is recommended as a leading silk by the legal directories in six practice areas: Administrative & Public Law, Competition & European Law, Civil Liberties & Human Rights, Public International Law and Sanctions. She is ranked in the ‘Chambers 100 UK Bar’ list of the top 100 barristers, and in Who’s Who as one of the world’s leading competition, trade and customs and international sanctions lawyers and as a ‘Thought Leader’ for Brexit.

Maya has a particular expertise in the law relating to economic sanctions. As the directories put it, she is “Queen of the Sanctions Bar without a doubt” and “owns the world of sanctions”.

She founded and co-writes europeansanctions.com, the leading online resource on sanctions & export control, with over 8000 followers worldwide and has given evidence on sanctions to a number parliamentary committees.

Chloe Cina

Director

Deutsche Bank

Chloe Cina is a Director at Deutsche Bank in the Global Sanctions & Embargoes Team. She is a barrister of 13 years Call and sanctions expert. She was the former UK Head of Sanctions at HSBC. She obtained her European Master’s Degree in Human Rights at the Venice Human Rights Centre and worked for UNESCO in Paris from 2000-2004. She practiced at the Criminal Bar before joining the UK Treasury Solicitor’s Department in 2008 where she worked in the National Security team on terrorism and sanctions related litigation. She joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office as a legal adviser in 2014, advising on financial sanctions and security policy in the EU and UN. She led the Iran nuclear legal team for the UK before joining HSBC in 2016.

Tom Cornell

Chapter Chair Associate
Debevoise & Plimpton

Tom practises as an associate in Debevoise & Plimpton’s London office. His practice focuses on complex international litigation and advice, with a particular emphasis on public international law and sanctions.

Tom is the co-author of ‘Sanctions Law’, which was published in January 2019 with a view to providing an accessible overview of sanctions law across a number of different jurisdictions. He has continued to write regularly on sanctions developments, and taught a sanctions module as part of the undergraduate law course at Lund University, Sweden.

Prior to joining Debevoise, Tom practised as a barrister and was Judicial Assistant to the Rt. Hon. Lord Dyson MR at the Court of Appeal for Easter and Trinity terms 2015. Tom also worked as a Visiting Professional at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.