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Doing business in Iran – managing the challenges: sanctions, disputes, exits

8 October 2020, 1.00pm Tehran/10.30am London

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Doing business in Iran – managing the challenges: sanctions, disputes, exits

Overview

On 8 October, The Legal 500 and Sabeti & Khatami jointly hosted a webinar to explore the opportunities and challenges when conducting business in Iran.

Sabeti & Khatami is a legal practice offering clients first-rate advice, commercial awareness, effective solutions and outstanding service on matters of Iranian law with an international element. The firm aims to establish enduring relationships of trust with the most discerning clients and to be their legal adviser of choice on strategic or complex matters of Iranian law.

Speakers

  • Behnam Khatami, co-founder, Sabeti & Khatami​
  • Hooman Sabeti, co-founder, Sabeti & Khatami​
  • Dr. Farid Sigari-Majd, partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  • Lucas Pomaroli, senior associate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

The webinar particularly focused on:

    • Navigating the constantly evolving sanctions landscape, and the outlook for sanctions.
    • Challenges for existing foreign participants in the Iran market, and how they are coping.
    • Lessons from the disputes involving foreign players that have arisen in the wake of the US withdrawal from the JCPOA.
    • The various market exit or restructuring options for foreign players and the issues they present.