Sanctions, Export Controls & Trade Compliance

The brief.

Sanctions and export controls have become a permanent feature of international trade, changing fast and carrying severe penalties. For companies trading across a fragmented geopolitical landscape, a compliance failure is a board-level event — but an overcautious function can paralyse commercial teams.

This programme equips leaders to build trade-compliance capacity that protects the company without stifling it. It covers sanctions screening, dual-use export controls, end-user diligence, and the design of a function that commercial teams can work with.

It is delivered by sanctions lawyers, former enforcement officials, and compliance directors.

Programme modules.

Sanctions Landscape & Screening

The major sanctions regimes and how to screen counterparties and transactions.

Export Controls & Dual-Use

Classifying goods and technology; licensing and the dual-use trap.

End-User & Counterparty Diligence

Knowing your customer and their end use; red flags and escalation.

Building a Workable Function

Designing compliance that protects without paralysing commercial teams.

What your leadership leaves with.

A sanctions-screening framework
An export-control classification process
An end-user diligence and escalation protocol
A compliance-function design that commercial teams accept