Areas of experience include economic and trade sanctions, export controls, customs and import compliance, national security reviews, and anticorruption and anti-money laundering (AML) compliance.

Imogen’s practice focuses on international trade law compliance, including economic and trade sanctions, export controls, customs, national security reviews, anticorruption and AML.

Her work encompasses advising on compliance with such laws, advising on risks in the context of international transactions, assisting with the drafting and implementation of trade compliance programs, conducting internal investigations, preparing voluntary disclosures and negotiating settlements with regulators.

Imogen has experience in advising clients across a range of industry sectors, principally aerospace and defense, energy, technology, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, consumer, financial services and private equity. Imogen was also previously seconded to the U.K. headquarters of a major U.S. health care company.

Representative Work

Advising several companies across a range of sectors on compliance with new U.K. and European Union (EU) economic and trade sanctions imposed on Russia and Belarus since late February 2022.
Advising on multiple U.K. and EU export control investigations for a major U.S. defense company, including the preparation of voluntary self-disclosures, the establishment and implementation of corrective actions and the negotiation of settlements with regulators.*
Conducting a multijurisdictional trade compliance, AML and anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) risk assessment for a multinational mining company.*
Assisting with trade controls due diligence and the development of compliance uplift programs for a global investment bank in the context of private equity transactions spanning various jurisdictions and industry sectors.*
Assisting with a UK and EU encryption technology classification project for an international motor company.*

Developing an extensive sanctions, AML and combatting terrorist financing (CTF) compliance program, including a bespoke counterparty screening tool, for a global cloud computing company.*
Advising a global aerospace and defense company on all aspects of U.K. military export control compliance.*
Advising multiple companies on foreign investment screening procedures and associated national security filings.*
Advising a Chinese financial institution on the impact on various facilities of U.K. and EU sanctions imposed on Belarus.*
Advising a global pharmaceutical company on import compliance and customs issues arising out of trade barriers re-imposed between the EU and the U.K. following Brexit.*
Advising a French international banking group on the import and export of products between the U.K. and the EU, including rules of origin, appointment of customs agents and incoterms.*
Supporting the U.K. government’s free trade agreement negotiations with Australia and New Zealand.*

*Matters handled prior to joining Akin.