About
An independent boutique focused only on sanctions.
Calder & Vance advises on economic sanctions, export controls and compliance — and nothing else. That focus is the point: clients with serious exposure get the depth of a specialist practice without the cost structure, conflicts or breadth of a full-service firm.
We act across the regimes that matter most in cross-border work — OFAC and BIS in the United States, OFSI and the ECJU in the United Kingdom, the Council and General Court in the European Union, and the United Nations — and we coordinate with vetted local counsel wherever a matter requires admission before a national authority or court.
Our register is sober and our positions are written to be defended. We will tell you where the line is, what it takes to cross it lawfully, and when a matter is not worth pursuing. We do not advise on circumventing or evading sanctions; declining that work is a condition of our credibility with regulators and banks.