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  • Walt Sapronov of our Firm recently delivered a presentation for the Center for International Legal Studies (CILS) Conference in Bad Gastein, Austria - Challenges to Legal Services in a changing World. See Conference Agenda at Attachment;  https://cils.org/conferences.php. Walt’s topic was dealing with Russia in Today’s Geopolitical Climate.  See highlights of his discussion Attached. For a copy of the accompanying client alert, please see see Attachment.

  • For a brief synopsis of this recently enacted, very important legislation, please see our Alert at Attachment

  • DEALING WITH RUSSIA IN TODAY’S GEOPOLITICAL CLIMATE Continuing with our “Fireside Chat” series on Russian Sanctions and Related  Complications in dealing with Russia, Walt Sapronov will be speaking at the upcoming Center for International Legal Studies (CILS) Conference in Bad Gastein, Austria, “Challenges to Legal Services in a Changing World,”  January 28 – February 3, 2024. See Conference Agenda at Attachment;  https://cils.org/conferences.php.  For a copy of

  • Walt Sapronov spoke on a recent BWG Strategy “Fireside Chat,” Russian Sanctions: Current Status and Potential Scenarios. Walt was joined by James Wholey, Partner, Phillips Lytel, LLP and Yuri Lebedev, Advisor to our affiliate, Sapronov Government Affairs. For more information on our firm’s experience with cross-border transfers please see the materials from our “Negotiable Hostilities” webinars at https://wstelecomlaw.com/2023/08/negotiable-hostilities-webinars/. For more information on BWG, see https://bwgstrategy.com/.  

  • Negotiable Hostilities, Part 1. “Doing Telecom Deals with Russia in the Sanctions Era.”  See Attachment A and A-Alert. Negotiable Hostilities, Part 2. “Telecom Deals with Foreign Investors in the Current Administration.”  See Attachment B and B-Alert. Negotiable Hostilities, Part 3. “REXIT – Doing Business With (or Leaving) Russia.”  See Attachment C and C-Alert. Negotiable Hostilities, Part 4.   “REXIT Roadmap – Managing Contract and Investment

  •   Walt Sapronov spoke on a recent BWG Strategy Roundtable Discussion regarding EU Payments, including the EU’s Payment Services Directive Two (PSD2).  Mr. Sapronov discussed the complexities of cross-border money transfer between Western Nations and Russia. For more information on our firm’s experience with cross-border transfers please see the materials from our webinar “Negotiable Hostilities – Part IV: REXIT Roadmap-Managing Contract and Investment Disputes when Leaving Russia”

  • As a follow up to our recent webinar, “Content Regulation in the Age of Misinformation”, here is a an Alert briefly discussing the outcome of the Gonzalez and Twitter cases before the U.S. Supreme Court – and what’s coming up next with online content regulation. Please see the attached Alert.

  •   We are pleased to announce that our recent webinar, “Content Regulation in the Age of Misinformation,” the first in our new series “Online Content Regulation” is now available at https://westlegaledcenter.com/program_guide/course_detail.jsf?videoCourseId=26675082&ADMIN_PREVIEW=true. Collaborating again with WestLegalEdcenter, this series discusses one of the most important issues now pending before the U. S. Supreme Court in Gonzalez v. Google: who may - or may not - control Internet speech. The

  •   The webinar, “Negotiable Hostilities – Part IV: REXIT Roadmap-Managing Contract and Investment Disputes when Leaving Russia” will discuss practice pointers for transactional attorneys, investors, commercial parties, arbitrators, and litigators seeking to resolve Western-Russian contractual and investment disputes, the respective jurisdictional interpretations of “force majeure”, investment arbitration, choice of law and forum, settlement considerations and deal protections for future transactions. Sponsored by Thomson Reuters, the discussion will

  • Congratulations to former law clerks Taylor Cressler and Nikita Zlatopolsky who graduated from the University of Georgia last week! Taylor will be clerking for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals and Nikita will be pursuing private practice. We wish both of these bright young attorneys all the best!