Michelle Linderman

Partner and Co-Head of International Trade Group at Van Bael & Bellis

Speaker

Michelle co-heads the Van Bael & Bellis International Trade team, is head of UK trade and leads the firm’s sanctions team. She specialises in providing clients with strategic and commercial advice on all aspects of international financial and trade sanctions and export control. With over 25 years in practice and more than a decade advising clients on EU and UK sanctions matters she is a genuine sanctions specialist frequently engaged by clients to assist with high stake and urgent matters.

During the course of her career, she has advised a range of clients across numerous sectors including trade, shipping and transport, insurance, banking and finance, technology, manufacturing, energy, and aviation.

Michelle’s practice focuses on providing guidance on compliance with EU and UK trade and financial sanctions and includes advising on the impact of sanctions on contracts and commercial obligations; drafting and advising on sanctions compliance policies and procedures; drafting and advising on sanctions exclusion clauses and other contractual clauses; advising on sanctions enforcement; conducting internal investigations in relation to suspected sanctions breaches; advising on applications for licences; advising on engagement with UK and EU regulators; advising on reporting obligations in the UK and EU jurisdictions, and responding to government enquiries and investigations.

Michelle also has significant expertise handling complex commercial disputes both in arbitration and litigation. This background in disputes enables her to provide strategic, practical and commercially-focussed guidance to help clients to successfully navigate the increasingly complex web of international sanctions.