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ACSS Benelux Chapter

Lessons Learned in UK/French/Dutch
Sanctions Enforcement

Hosted by

Lexis Nexis Legal & Professional

29 Radarweg 1043 NX Amsterdam Netherlands

Thu, July 6, 2023

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM CEST

Speaker
  • Michelle Linderman, VBB
  • Sebastiaan Bennink, BenninkAmar Advocaten
  • Jan Dunin-Wasowicz, Hughes Hubbard & Reed
  • Maarten Rijssenbeek, Deloitte

Event Information

Join us for our next ACSS Benelux Chapter event, hosted by Lexis Nexis!

This event will feature a trifecta of sanctions experts addressing us on recent trends in sanctions and export contols enforcement from the UK, French, and Dutch persepectives.

Agenda as follows:

  • 18:00 – 18:10 Registration & Welcome
  • 18:10 – 18:20 Short speech from Lexis Nexis / Intro from ACSS Executive Director
  • 18:20 – 18:30 Update from our Chapter Chair, Maarten Rijssenbeek
  • 18:30 – 18:50 Discussion of UK enforcement trends, with Michelle Linderman of Van Bael & Bellis
  • 18:50 – 19:10 Discussion of French enforcement trends, with Jan Dunin-Wasowicz of Hughes Hubbard & Reed
  • 19:10 – 19:30 Discussion of Dutch enforcement trenda, Sebastiaan Bennink of Bennink Amar Advocaten
  • 19:30 – 21:00 Networking over drinks and nibbles

This is a wonderful opportunity to share knowledge and ask our experts those burning questions in an informal setting.

Don’t miss it!

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Speakers

Michelle J. Linderman

Chapter Advisory Legal

Head of London-based International Trade team
Van Bael & Bellis
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Michelle Linderman leads Van Bael & Bellis’ London-based International Trade team. She specialises in providing clients with strategic and commercial advice on all aspects of international financial and trade sanctions and export control. With over 25 years in practice and more than a decade advising clients on EU and UK sanctions matters she is a genuine sanctions specialist.

Michelle also advises on anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, modern slavery, cybersecurity and other compliance and risk issues.

During the course of her career, she has advised a range of clients across numerous sectors including trade, shipping and transport, insurance, banking and finance, technology, manufacturing, energy, and aviation.

Michelle’s practice focuses on providing guidance on compliance with EU and UK trade and financial sanctions; advising on the impact of new sanctions on contracts and commercial obligations; drafting and advising on sanctions compliance policies and procedures; drafting and advising on sanctions exclusion clauses and other contractual clauses; advising on sanctions enforcement; conducting internal investigations in relation to suspected sanctions breaches; advising on applications for licences; and responding to government enquiries and investigations.

She regularly engages with the UK’s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) and other regulators both in the UK and in various EU Member States to apply for licences and authorisations, to seek guidance and to respond to government enquiries and investigations.

Michelle also has significant expertise handling complex commercial disputes both in arbitration and litigation. This background in disputes enables her to provide strategic, practical and commercially-focussed guidance to help clients to successfully navigate the increasingly complex web of international sanctions.

Sebastiaan Bennink

Advocaat (Lawyer) – International Trade Law

BenninkAmar Advocaten
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Sebastiaan has extensive experience in advising and assisting (multinational) companies when do-ing business in sanctioned countries, including Cuba, Iran, Syria and Russia. Sebastiaan also has successfully represented his clients in administrative, criminal and private law matters and related procedures in the area of sanctions and export controls. He also frequently assists his clients with their trade compliance related issues and is very experienced in conducting internal (fraud)investigations, preparing voluntary disclosures and assisting clients in matters initiated by national and international authorities (VS, UK, EU en NL).

Sebastiaan has advised a number of major (including publicly listed) offshore companies and (multi)nationals on EU and US sanctions compliance and assisted them with successfully re-entering the Iranian market. In addition, Sebastiaan has assisted an international operating communication systems company with a voluntary self-disclosure before the national reg-ulatory authorities. Sebastiaan has also advised a major international carrier in a criminal investigation for exports to Saudi Arabia without the required export licenses. His recent work includes advising one of the largest international drone companies in the world on the implementation of a compliance policy and providing transaction advice relating thereto. Sebastiaan has extensive experience in respect of transactions relating to Russia and various African countries.

Sebastiaan is an esteemed speaker at national and international conferences in the field of trade laws. He also frequently lectures, provides (in-house) training and publishes in legal literature, news-papers and magazines. Sebastiaan is regularly quoted in newspapers, and often appears on tv and radio shows.

Before founding BenninkAmar, Sebastiaan was a partner at Wladimiroff, and also at B&A Law, the first Dutch boutique firm specialising in economic sanctions laws and export control legislation. Prior to that, Sebastiaan worked at the Regulatory and Criminal Enforcement department of De Brauw Blackstong Westbroek, the Netherlands’ largest law firm.

Jan Dunin-Wasowicz

Partner

Hughes Hubbard & Reed
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Jan Dunin-Wasowicz is a Partner in Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s Sanctions, Export Controls & Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations practice groups. He focuses his practice on cross-border compliance and regulatory enforcement, multi-jurisdictional internal and government investigations, as well as international dispute resolution. Having received full legal training in both the common law and civil law systems, Jan is an attorney-at-law and an avocat à la Cour.

As part of his sanctions and trade controls practice, Jan has experience navigating economic sanctions, export controls and trade compliance issues from both EU and U.S. perspectives in a variety of contexts, including risk assessments, design and evaluation of sanctions and export control compliance programs, merges & acquisitions, contractual negotiation and reviews, transaction due diligence, licensing, and investigations.

Dunin-Wasowicz speaks and writes frequently on subjects related to economic sanctions, anti-corruption compliance and international law. He has lectured at Sciences Po, the Sorbonne and the European University Institute, and is an associate fellow of the Royal United Services Institute (CFCS).

Maarten Rijssenbeek

Partner of the Forensic & Financial Crime team

Deloitte
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Maarten Rijssenbeek is a partner of the Forensic & Financial Crime team of Deloitte in The Netherlands. Before he joined Deloitte, he worked as a public prosecutor and as a deputy advocate general for more than ten years. Maarten started his career as a corporate and criminal defence attorney.
Maarten focuses on assisting clients with financial crime challenges. He participates in and drives the wider debate on bringing the (inter)national financial crime framework to the next maturity level, e.g. facilitating public/private and private/private cooperation.

As a prosecutor, Maarten investigated and prosecuted several high profile fraud, corruption and money laundering cases.

From 2013-2019, Maarten was the national coordinating prosecutor for terrorist financing in the Netherlands. In this role, he cofounded and chaired an interagency partnership and a public-private partnership against terrorism financing within the Dutch Financial Expertise Centre (FEC). He was also closely involved in the creation of a public-private partnership against serious crime and money laundering.

Maarten has been a member of the Dutch FATF delegation and a visiting lecturer on terrorist financing and sanctions at Leiden University.