Virtual Workshop B — From Rules to Reality: A Step-by-Step Guide to Putting Global Sanctions and Export Controls Into Practice
Stefano Spanò
Compliance, Head of Subsidiaries Trade Compliance
Leonardo S.p.A (Italy)
David Lim
Partner
White & Case LLP (USA)
This interactive workshop is designed to translate the legal and regulatory frameworks explored in Workshop A into practical, operational decision-making. Attendees will work through real-world scenarios, internal decision trees, and practical challenges that compliance, legal, trade, and business teams face when theory collides with commercial reality. You will leave with practical tools, internal frameworks, and best practices to immediately deploy for your daily work. Points of discussion include:
- Translating sanctions and export control rules into internal workflows and decision-making
- Conducting risk-based due diligence when origin, ownership, or end use is unclear
- Implementing export classification and internal control assessments in practice
- Identifying and responding to sanctions evasion and indirect exposure risks
- Applying services sanctions and investment restrictions across jurisdictions
- Managing escalation, investigations, and voluntary self-disclosures
- Building defensible compliance programmes that work in real-world operations
- Identifying how to implement the rules in practice when you don’t know where a product originates
- Understanding the pitfalls of export classification and how it can be done effectively
- Working through practical examples including services sanctions, internal export control assessments, sectoral sanctions, secondary sanctions, and voluntary self-disclosures