Sanctions and Export Controls in the Aerospace Sector: Compliance Challenges in 2025

Ornella Belfiori is a Senior Associate in the White Collar Crime, Investigations & Compliance department at ADVANT Nctm. Earlier in her career, she worked for almost nine years at a global law firm and, prior to that, she gained experience as a Summer Associate at the Brussels office of ADVANT Nctm.

Ornella provides practical, day-to-day advice on economic sanctions and export controls issues of all varieties. She is particularly skilled in creating successful strategies for handling trade sanctions enforced by the European Union and OFAC, as well as export controls regimes. She frequently counsels clients in connection with custom related product classifications and supports them in liaising with competent Authorities to obtain relevant licenses and authorizations.

Ornella regularly advises clients in international enforcement matters, including those arising under the FCPA and other anti-bribery legislations. She gained substantial experience in handling cross-border internal investigations across a broad range of topics including, among others, bribery and corruption, fraud, bankruptcy and tax crimes.

Ornella also routinely assists multinational companies in designing, developing, and implementing 231 Models, as well as global trade and anti-corruption compliance programs that meet local and international standards (FCPA, UKBA). She regularly supports Supervisory Bodies appointed pursuant to Decree 231/2001 and has been appointed monocratic Supervisory Body of two energy companies.

Ornella is an officer of both the Export Controls and the Export Controls Certification Task Forces of the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS). She participates in conferences and seminars as a speaker and writes on topics of her interest. Her Master thesis, ‘Towards “Intelligent Compliance”: Artificial Intelligence as an Effective Anti-Corruption Tool?’, has been published by IACA

Francesco Candeago is an experienced legal counsel and sanctions compliance professional currently working as Sanctions and Export Control Manager at Airbus’ headquarters in Toulouse, France. Before joining Airbus, Francesco practiced law in Milan, Italy, and acquired extensive experience in complex cross-border transactions involving countries subject to restrictive measures. Francesco’s experience includes advising commercial operators and financial institutions on the development and implementation of internal compliance programmes, as well as on a wide range of matters from contract negotiation, corporate governance, and transactional due diligence. Francesco holds a combined Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Pavia and an LL.M. in International Commercial Law with Distinction from the University of Glasgow, Scotland (UK).

Ivy Llena has over 14 years of experience in the learning and development field, providing capacity-building and professional development programs for corporate and social service agencies in the US and the Philippines.

Before joining ACSS, she was a program director at a non-profit organization in the Philippines, where she co-designed and co-implemented economic empowerment programs and services for survivors of human trafficking and their families. Ivy also served at the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis, where she led and contributed to inclusive economic growth initiatives.