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Your global guide to sanctions regimes

International trade and sanctions regimes are complex and the costs of compliance are high. The rules vary from one regime to another and the constantly changing political landscape creates even more challenges to protect your business. The risks of violating sanctions can be severe but businesses who are aware of their key exposures can gain a critical advantage.

Using our knowledge and experience of advising clients on business critical sanctions issues, we have developed a global guide to Sanctions as part of our NRF Institute. The guide can quickly identify if a particular country is subject to certain international trade and sanctions regimes, general embargos, arms embargos and asset freeze regimes enforced by the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the EU, and provides an overview of the specific sanctions in place on individual countries affected by the different regimes.

Read the full publication, "Understanding sanctions."

Electronic signature law guide

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the use of e-signatures has become the new normal for many businesses across the globe. Understanding the legal framework and practicalities of where they can and cannot be used in cross-border deals is imperative.

Covering over 70 jurisdictions, our interactive cross-border guide covers the laws and practicalities around the use of electronic execution of documents, including:

• Can electronic signatures be used in legal proceedings?
• What types of contracts can they be used for?
• Which areas are problematic?
• Do local registries (real estate, ships, aircraft, other) accept e-signatures?

The guide can be used to review individual countries and also to create and customize your own comparative reports between different jurisdictions.

Read the full publication, "Electronic signature law: A global guide."