Expertise
- Representation of Athletes and Sports Professionals
- Export and trade controls
- School and university hearings
- Financial Reporting Council (FRC) investigations
- Professional disciplinary
- Food safety / environmental health
- FCA investigations
- FCA How to Guides
- Environmental crime
- Corporate Manslaughter / Health and Safety
- Competition & Markets Authority – Directors
PRACTICE AREA
Sanctions
"Corker Binning has very personable lawyers in the sanctions team."
Chambers 2026
Experience Across the UK Sanctions Regimes
We advise on the full spectrum of issues arising under the UK sanctions regimes, including:
- Designation and applications for delisting
- Civil and criminal investigations into alleged breaches of sanctions
- Applications for and compliance with OFSI licences
- Compliance with UK sanctions rules
- Trade and Export controls
Our clients include both designated (‘sanctioned’) persons and individuals or entities otherwise caught by the sanctions regime.
We have strength and depth across the above areas. In particular we have market-leading experience representing designated persons and their associates. We have secured the successful delisting of two designated persons in the UK – a complex process and a rare outcome.
Practical Support in Complex Situations
Sanctions law is complex, fast-moving and politically sensitive, and we recognise that no two sanctions cases are alike. The regulatory, reputational and financial risks are significant and often time-sensitive. We take a tailored approach, working closely with you to build a strategy that reflects your circumstances, obligations and goals.
We offer practical, considered advice tailored to the realities of your situation, whether you’re under investigation, managing an ongoing designation, or just trying to navigate the implications of the sanctions rules.
We stay ahead of developments so you don’t fall behind.
Further services
SERVICES
- Applications to the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office and the courts for a designated person to be listed i.e. to be removed from the list of designated people
- Advising and assisting with applications to the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation for licences
- Representing individuals and businesses who may be subject to enforcement action for breaches of sanctions law
- Compliance advice to individuals and businesses seeking to comply with the sanctions regime
- Representing Oleg Tinkov in his successful application to the FCDO to be de-listed i.e. for sanctions on him to be removed
- Advising several other high-profile individuals on challenging their designation by the UK Government, including bring applications for de-listing to the FCDO and, thereafter, to the High Court
- Acting for designated Nikita Mazepin in his delisting application to the FCDO, and his application to the High Court for interim relief from sanctions;
- Representing clients at interviews under caution with the NCA on suspicion of criminal evasion of sanctions;
- Representing the directors of an overseas company in a cross-border investigation into sanctions busting allegedly committed by the private office of a prominent Russian national;
- Advising a number of UK and European companies in the financial services sector on whether (a) they are owned or controlled by designated persons, and/or (b) particular transactions would breach financial sanctions, and making associated representations to OFSI to obtain “comfort letters” to this effect, thereby enabling them to restore banking facilities that had been frozen, and conduct legitimate business;
- Making applications to OFSI to secure the lawful release of funds in relation to frozen assets (including cultural property owned or controlled by designated persons) for urgent reasons;
- Advising an individual and an unrelated business on securing the release of transportation assets impounded by the Department of Transport
Key Partners
All Partners
Recent News and Highlights
News
Corker Binning Strengthens Its Position in the 2026 Chambers High Net Worth Guide
July 23 2026
Comments
Maia Cohen-Lask quoted in the media on Eugene Shvidler’s failure to overturn his sanctions designation, following highly anticipated Supreme Court judgment
July 29 2025
