Courtney Mackness

Courtney has significant experience advising clients on corporate compliance program, trade-related due diligence in the context of corporate transactions, sanctions and export controls investigations, sanctions and export controls licensing and sanctions-related litigation. As part of these mandates, Courtney has considerable experience engaging with relevant regulatory bodies, including in the context of licensing and investigation matters before HM Revenue & Customs, the Export Control Joint Unit, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) and the European Commission. Courtney has significant experience and interest in the energy and commodity trading sectors, following a three year secondment to the compliance function of the trading entity of a global energy major.

Further, Courtney advises clients on the UK trade remedies regime, including in the context of anti-dumping and countervailing investigations. In this context, she has acted for both applicants and responding participants, as well as has experience engaging with the UK Trade Remedies Authority.

• Advising a broad range of FTSE100 and other multinational companies on UK and EU sanctions and export control compliance, including divestments from and exports to Russia, applications for financial sanctions and trade sanctions licences to UK and EU authorities, and voluntary disclosures of sanctions violations.
• Advising a European headquarters integrated oil and gas company in respect of UK and EU sanctions compliance matters, leading to securing a mandate to advise on the trade-related aspects of its acquisition of strategic assets connected with sanctioned persons.
• Advising a range of FTSE100 and other multinational companies, as well as high-net worth individuals, in relation to a commercial litigations arising as a result of the UK sanctions regime targeting Russia, including drafting licence applications and engaging with key UK, EU, US and Cayman Island sanctions regulators.
• Advising and assisting a chemical company on its application to the UK Trade Remedies Authority for anti-dumping duties to be applied against US importers.
• Advising a chemical company on participating in a UK anti-dumping investigation, and the consequences of non-participation.
• Advised British American Tobacco on the compliance aspects of its global strategic partnership with Accenture.

Courtney provides ongoing support to an international non-governmental organisation in respect of its compliance with UK, EU and US sanctions, including representations before UK Government, across a number of country and thematic regimes, as well as in respect of other regulatory risks (including counter terrorist financing and anti-bribery and corruption), as part of Baker McKenzie's pro-bono program.