Compliance Roundtable Frankfurt 2026

Join us at Noerr's Frankfurt office for this year’s edition of our Compliance Round Table – a forum to discuss the evolving framework for cross-border financing.

Extraterritorial sanctions regimes, diverging regulatory requirements, and the growing complexity of the compliance landscape call for a strategic realignment of risk management:

• US secondary sanctions – heightened liability risks for correspondent banking and trade finance
• EU Blocking Regulation (Regulation (EC) No. 2271/96) and US sanctions – a regulatory tension between two competing legal systems
• Internal investigations in an international context – lessons from France's Loi de Blocage, and the risk of criminal consequences

Drawing on landmark cases – including high-profile sanctions proceedings against major European banks and sanctions-related project losses into the billions – our panel will examine the key developments at the intersection of geopolitics, sanctions law, and financial market regulation. The emphasis will be on actionable recommendations for building a future-proof compliance architecture in an increasingly uncertain international environment.

Following the panel, we invite you to join our Get Together – an opportunity to continue the conversation and explore a wide range of practice-oriented issues that shape our day-to-day professional lives.