2009 - 2010
Corporate, Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions
2009 - The Eren Law Firm, as lead counsel, completes cross-border strategic acquisition for leading industrial group.
2010 - The Eren Law Firm advises a notable European company on the sale of its Moroccan subsidiary to an American company. Our work in this matter also included undertaking and completion of the documentation of the transaction and advice on local law. The sale was part of a disposition of other subsidiaries around the world.
Financial Regulatory, Economic Sanctions
Economic sanctions issues are increasingly complex and penalties for violations US/OFAC sanctions have increased, and new enforcement and penalty guidelines have been issued. Learn more.
US Relaxes Cuba Embargo – September 2009
2007 - 2009
Notable Representative Matters
EREN Lawyers - News 12 2009Summer - Winter 2007
Economic Sanctions Compliance Program and Compliance Audit/Forensic Review
The Eren Law Firm designs and completes a comprehensive OFAC economic sanctions compliance program for a major US financial services company with international operations and constituents, and also conducts a forensic review of transactions in the past 5 years that may have implicated sanctions prohibitions.
September - December 2007
Corporate, Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions
The Eren Law Firm provides comprehensive advice and representation to, and negotiates and drafts agreements for, a major US and European industrial group with respect to the Group's international acquisition of an ongoing business and its assets. The firm, among other things, conducted due diligence, advised on regulatory matters, and negotiated and drafted acquisition, employment, and lease agreements related to the acquisition. Transaction closed 12/2007.
October 2007
Economic Sanctions Penalties
New increased penalties for economic sanctions violations.
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Through June 2007
MHS v. Malaysia (ICSID)
The Eren Law Firm Represents a UK Claimant Against Malaysia Pursuant to the UK/Malaysia Bilateral Investment Treaty (ICSID)
Case Submissions and Decisions in Chronological Order
Claimant's Memorial on Jurisdiction w/o exhibitsRespondent's Memorial on Jurisdiction w/o exhibits
Claimant's Reply Memorial on Jurisdiction w/o exhibits
Respondent's Reply Memorial on Jurisdiction w/o exhibits
Transcript of Hearing Held in Frankfurt on Jurisdiction
Claimant's Post-Jurisdiction Hearing Submission and exhibit
Respondent's Post-Jurisdiction Hearing Submission w/o exhibits
Malaysia's Letter of July 3, 2006
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MHS's Letter of July 3, 2006 (w/enclosures)
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Transcript Excerpt 1 Transcript Excerpt 2
Transcript Excerpt 3
MHS's December 17, 2006 Comments on the Issue of Investment
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17 2006 Comments on Investment Final
Malaysia's Comments on the Issue of Investment
Malaysia Comments 1 Malaysia Comments 2
Malaysia's Letter of January 9, 2007
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MHS's Letter of January 12, 2007
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MHS’s Submission of March 21, 2007 on the Issue of Investment
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Malaysia’s Submission of March 22, 2007 on the Issue of Investment
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Award on Jurisdciton of May 17, 2007
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MHS’s Petition for Annulment of May 17, 2007 Award – TBA/TBD
May 2006
International Arbitration
Libananco v. Turkey (ICSID)
Case Commentary: - US $ 10.1 Billion Claim Against Turkey for Alleged Unlawful Seizure/Taking of Two Electric Utility Companies in Turkey (ICSID). English Turkish
November 2005
Steven Pinter offers a unique perspective on the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba
at the U.S. Agricultural Export Development Council's November 2005 conference.
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September 2005
The Eren Law Firm is retained to advise a sovereign and its instrumentalities with respect to an action in federal court in the SDNY seeking attachment of and execution against the assets of the instrumentalities pursuant to the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA).
October 2005
The Eren Law Firm goes public with news of its new Doing Business in Libya Legal
and Strategic Advice Practice.
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July 2005
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Practice News Release.
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February 2005
The Eren Law Firm Represents Cuban Refugees Seeking Political Asylum in The United States.
January 2005
The Eren Law Firm Instructed to Represent an ICSID Arbitration Claimant Against
a Southeast Asian Sovereign.
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One of the world's largest companies hires The Eren Law Firm to advise it on a continuing basis with respect to U.S. economic sanctions, export controls and other U.S. trade regulatory matters such as the Foreign Trade Regulations.
December 2004
Former Treasury/OFAC Officials Steven Pinter and Hal Eren Advise and Represent U.S. and Non-U.S. Banks and Other Financial Institutions on Issues Related to OFAC Sanctions and the anti-money laundering provisions of the USA PATRIOT ACT.
November 2004
Former Key Senior U.S. Treasury Official, Steven Pinter, former Chief of Licensing
at the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Joins The Eren Law
Firm.
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September 2004
Lawyers of The Eren Law Firm in Washington, D.C. and Tripoli begin to advise and counsel major U.S. companies on the legal and political aspects of doing business in Libya, as well as on related opportunities and associated risks.
May 2004
Professor Bruno A. Ristau, A Leading International Arbitration and Litigation Expert
and Lawyer Joins The Eren Law Firm.
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February 2003
One of the world's largest wealth management companies hires the Eren Law Firm to regularly advise it on economic sanctions and anti-money laundering compliance issues.
February 2002
Hal Eren departs Clifford Chance and establishes The Eren Law Firm.
The Eren Law Firm is mandated by one of the world's largest international banks engaged in New York dollar-clearing to provide the bank with continuous advice on financial regulatory matters, including but not limited to, trans-jurisdictional matters implicating anti-money laundering laws and regulations, economic sanctions, securities laws, and U.S. Federal Reserve-administered regulations.