Sanctions Update: U.S. Government Officials to Discuss Recent Russia Sanctions Related to Ukraine at Brown Bag Lunch/Teleconference on March 19, 2014

Please join the American Bar Association's Export Controls & Sanctions Committee, the International Law Forum of the Women's Bar Association of DC, the Washington Foreign Law Society, and the National Council on International Trade Development (NCITD) for an impromptu, off the record brown bag lunch discussing the recent imposition of sanctions by the U.S. Government on certain Ukrainian and Russian officials, as well as the possibility for additional sanctions under the two new Executive Orders issued by President Obama on March 6 & 17, 2014.

We are pleased to be joined by:

�         John Hughes, Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sanctions Policy & Implementation, Bureau of Economic & Business Affairs, U.S. Department of State

�         John E. Smith, Associate Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), U.S. Department of Treasury

�         Daniel Silverberg, National Security Advisor to House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer [invited]

�         David Mortlock, Director for International Economic Affairs on the White House National Security Staff [invited]

The brown bag lunch (please bring your lunches) will begin at noon; talks will begin no later than 12:30 pm.

Place:  Arent Fox LLP, 1717 K Street, NW, Washington DC 20036 (near Farragut north and Farragut West)

Date / Time:  Wednesday, March 19, 2014 // Lunch, Noon.  Discussion, 12:30 pm.

Teleconference number to be distributed upon registration.

TO REGISTER, PLEASE SEND YOUR NAME, TITLE, FIRM/COMPANY, PHONE AND EMAIL ADDRESS, AND SPECIFY "IN PERSON" OR "TELECONFERENCE" TO COREY SMITH (202-715-8519) [email protected], by 11 AM on Wednesday, March 19.  Please caption your email:  "Sanctions Briefing RSVP."  Persons registering for the teleconference will receive call in details following registration.