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 customs-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.

Jeff Nielsen is a sanctions and export controls lawyer with over 20 years’ experience representing clients in diverse industries, both at law firms and in-house. His expertise is in both United States and European Union sanctions and export controls laws.

Rohan is a Sanctions Data Specialist at Bloomberg based in London. As a Specialist, Rohan identifies entities and financial instruments impacted by economic sanctions. In addition to acquiring and ensuring the quality of Bloomberg's sanction data Rohan has worked on product enhancements bringing greater transparency into the way issuers and securities are impacted by sanctions restrictions. Rohan specializes in sanctions from the US, EU, UK, Switzerland & the United Nations.