Focus on Canada: How to Resolve Conflicts with US and Canadian Sanctions and Blocking Measures
John Boscariol Panel Moderator
Partner
McCarthy Tétrault (Toronto, ON)
Stephen Alsace
Senior Director, Sanctions – AML Group
CIBC (Toronto, ON)
- Key differences between US and Canadian sanctions for Iran
- How to handle Cuban nationals as customers and when not to freeze their accounts
- Scope of permitted travel-related transactions to Cuba
- What is eligible under the EAR License exception
- Review of how to evaluate a transaction for heightened sanctions risk
- How to resolve conflicts of law between blocking measures in EU, Mexico, and Canada
- What to do when foreign blocking measures are triggered