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ACSS Aﬃliate Members receive substantial access, recognition and lead generation beneﬁts throughout their membership term. By increasing their eﬀectiveness and success, ACSS members, who are devoted to best practices in economic sanctions and OFAC compliance seek and purchase services and solutions that you provide.

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ACQUIS is an international law firm headquartered in Brussels.

Our dedicated sanctions and export control team, composed of seasoned sanctions lawyers, compliance experts, government affairs specialists, and researchers provides comprehensive legal and compliance services to clients worldwide on a broad range of sanctions and export control-related matters.

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The distinctive feature of our sanctions practice is our rigorous focus on minimising the “grey area”, i.e. the uncertainty regarding the scope of prohibitions and requirements arising from the sanctions and export control rules. While ensuring our clients’ full compliance with applicable regulations, we also help clients avoid unnecessary over-compliance and self-sanctioning, which is often observed in the area of sanctions and export control.

We have advised clients in a wide range of sectors, including financial services, energy, technology, transport, chemicals, agriculture, engineering and construction, and defence. Our clients benefit from our long-standing experience representing and advising a wide range of companies in complex and technical issues related to sanctions and export control, where we also closely collaborated with leading sanctions experts in the US and other jurisdictions.

Our services include:

Sanctions Legal Advice
Sanctions Compliance
Sanctions Litigation
Sanctions Monitoring
Export Controls & Dual-use items
License & Application Management
Sanctions & Export Controls Training and Audit

In addition to its sanctions and export control practice, ACQUIS provides a wide range of legal and government affairs services, covering the below-listed practices:

Trade & Customs
Dispute Resolution
Antitrust, Competition & State Aid
Public International Law
Government & Public Affairs
Foreign Direct Investment & Subsidies
Diplomatic Support Services
International Criminal Law & Human Rights

BIGTXN is one of the world’s largest data processors for financial instruments. We leverage state-of-the-art algorithms to deliver market leading securities data to financial institutions, helping them make informed investment decisions.

Our enhanced data is the key to better risk management and financial crime compliance and is tailored to the widest variety of use case profiles.

We help investors and traders know exactly who they’re investing in or trading with, by uncovering hidden details in financial instruments.

With cutting-edge technologies, connecting disparate data sets and enriching them is made accurate and efficient. We provide comprehensive securities data, across every jurisdiction so our customers can have a complete view of every financial instrument.

Established in 1995, CRDF Global is an independent nonprofit organization that promotes safety, security, and sustainability through international development and foreign assistance missions in over 120 countries. We are a recognized leader in strategic capacity-building programs that combine technical expertise with flexible, locally driven solutions across the areas of CBRNE security and nonproliferation, global health, strategic trade controls, cybersecurity, innovation, food security, and international professional exchanges.

Descartes (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG) is the global leader in providing on-demand, software-as-a-service solutions focused on improving the productivity, performance, and security of logistics-intensive businesses. Our suite of solutions helps businesses achieve higher trade compliance rates, reduce duties paid, minimize transactions with sanctioned parties and provides insight into potential customers and supply chain resources. Customers use our modular, software-as-a-service solutions to route, schedule, track, and measure delivery resources; plan, allocate and execute shipments; rate, audit and pay transportation invoices; access global trade data; file customs and security documents for imports and exports; and complete numerous other logistics processes by participating in the world’s largest, collaborative multimodal logistics community. Our headquarters are in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and we have offices and partners around the world.

The FTI Consulting Export Controls and Sanctions practice is a truly global practice that operates seamlessly across all jurisdictions and industries to provide timely, comprehensive and practical advice. We help our clients navigate the complexity of export controls and sanctions compliance by simplifying them into manageable, actionable, and auditable internal controls. Our consultants provide insight into the possible interpretations of new sanctions based on foreign policy and national security priorities. We help clients comply with export controls and sanctions laws by carrying out due diligence, preparing licenses and licensing strategies, designing risk models using advanced data analytics, developing practical policies and procedures, and crafting training programs that correspond to the culture and risk-proﬁle of their business.

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP is a leading international law firm that focuses on quality and results.

Since its founding in 1888, Hughes Hubbard & Reed has prioritized commitment to its clients and the ability to mobilize talents around the world as quickly as possible. Today, Hughes Hubbard strikes a balance between scale and agility, allowing the firm to tackle its clients’ largest and most complex matters while adapting to an ever-changing market.

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Sanctions, Export Controls, and Anti-Money Laundering practice group advises companies around the world on all types of trade compliance matters, including government licensing, compliance programs, disclosures, enforcement matters (civil and criminal), due diligence in connection with mergers and acquisitions, and audits. With a strong presence in Paris and in Washington, D.C., Hughes Hubbard & Reed effectively stay abreast of new developments in these critical areas, particularly in the European Union and the United States, and maintain ongoing contact with the relevant regulators.

At KPMG, our commitment to our clients inspires everything we do. It enables us to deliver innovative and practical solutions to the most difficult sanctions challenges – whether assisting in the design and management of a sanctions program or supporting everyday operational needs. Our experienced team of global professionals has extensive knowledge about the real-world application of sanctions requirements. We help our clients navigate these challenges through:
— Compliance program development;
— Risk assessments;
— Investigations and remediation assistance;
— Historical transactional look-backs;
— KPMG Trade Management on Demand that enables our clients to focus on high-priority items, while we perform day-to-day sanctions management work; and
— Restricted Party Screening system optimization and “hit” resolution
To learn more, contact Steven Brotherton at sbrotherton@kpmg.com.

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions provides customers with solutions and decision tools that combine public and industry specific content with advanced technology and analytics to assist them in evaluating and predicting risk and enhancing operational efficiency.

We use the power of data and advanced analytics to help our customers make better, timelier decisions. Our innovative solutions enable organizations to manage risks like identity theft, fraud, money laundering and terrorism, and prevent financial crimes, and insurance and government benefit scams. We help those without traditional credit histories obtain access to funds, assist agencies to find uncollected revenue, and research ways to improve business outcomes for healthcare companies. We also work with law enforcement to solve crimes.

By bringing clarity to information, we ultimately help make communities safer, insurance rates more accurate, commerce more transparent, business decisions easier and processes more efficient.

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Helping practitioners sustain compliance in a world of complex rules. OverRuled, powered by Akin, is an award-winning legal data productivity platform aimed at alleviating the burden of over-regulation for in-house lawyers and compliance practitioners. The platform offers one-of-a-kind sanctions and export control-related tools, and with its recent acquisition of the (former ACSS Affiliate Member) “TURBOFAC Comprehensive U.S. Sanctions Research System,” OverRuled is the essential one-stop-shop for sanctions professionals globally.

At Pole Star we develop pioneering maritime technologies to empower real world decisions.

Together with business across the supply chain, financial institutions and governments, we play an essential part in creating a transparent, secure, and compliant operating environment. Since 1998, we have pushed the limits of innovation, mitigating growing threats to ships, supply chains, cargo, territorial waters and, most importantly, lives within the maritime infrastructure and beyond.

Today, we continue to develop new ways of turning complex data into accessible insight across regulatory conformance, sanctions screening, trade compliance, tracking, monitoring, and ship security. Our solutions enable time-critical decisions and mitigate risk across all facets of maritime activity – protecting those engaged in maritime trade from rising regulatory scrutiny.

S&P Global Market Intelligence is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). We are the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics, and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity, and automotive markets. Our specialized content and capabilities enable our customers to analyse sectors and trends, manage risk and solve complex problems and make confident decisions around supply chain, maritime and trade, issuer solutions, and economics and country risk. Our deep sector intelligence includes financial institutions, insurance, real estate, technology, media, telecoms, ESG, and commodities.

At S&P Global Market Intelligence, we understand the importance of accurate, deep, and insightful information. Our team of experts delivers unrivalled insights and leading data and technology solutions, partnering with customers to expand their perspective, operate with confidence, and make decisions with conviction. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

For more information, visit http://spglobal.com/marketintelligence.