Foreign sanctions, including secondary US sanctions that are
aimed at non-US companies doing business with Russia, are forcing
many international companies to carefully evaluate and restructure
their contractual relationships with Russian counterparties. In
this process Russian antitrust law provides obstacles that may be
difficult to overcome sometimes.
Measures considered to comply with sanctions
Among others, sanctions force international companies
- not to enter into business
relationships with sanctioned persons,
- to stop or wind down existing
business relationships with sanctioned persons,
- not to conduct business in
Crimea.
As the future scope of the sanctions is unpredictable and the
lists of sanctioned persons may well be expanded, international
companies are trying to prepare for the potential future inclusion
of their Russian counterparties into such lists. International
companies may also try to ensure that their Russian counterparties
do not
