Sanctions, COVID and Inflation: Need a Crystal Ball to Update Your Risk Factors?

The Ukraine crisis raises a host of potential forward-looking statement qualifiers and risk factors to consider, as U.S. and European leaders swiftly issued several rounds of progressively more severe sanctions against Russian financial institutions, state-owned agencies, and Russian elites with close ties to President Putin.

Numerous additional parties have been sanctioned and new categories of sanctions have been introduced in more recent days, as have significant export controls. In addition to the sanctions against Russian entities and individuals, the U.S. Government has also issued sanctions against entities and individuals in Belarus’s defense and financial sectors.

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• Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner: Sanctions, COVID and Inflation: Need a Crystal Ball to Update Your Risk Factors?