Sabrine Hassen will speak on the panel “Cross-Border Disputes in a Changing Trade Environment: Sanctions, Asset Recovery, and Execution Risks” during Dubai Arbitration Week, which connects Dubai’s arbitration community with practitioners, experts, thought leaders, and institutions from around the world. The panel will bring together legal, investigative, and industry perspectives to examine the practical challenges businesses face when international trade and transactions go wrong.
Sabrine and her fellow panelists will explore what actually happens when an international transaction breaks down, particularly against the backdrop of geopolitical uncertainty, sanctions, complex corporate structures, and evolving trade relationships. The discussion will follow the progression of a cross-border dispute, from the first signs of contractual or operational difficulties through asset identification and preservation to the practical realities of enforcement and recovery. Sabrine will highlight the greatest obstacles to identifying assets available for enforcement in complex cross-border disputes, explain at what stage asset tracing specialists should become involved, and discuss what makes the difference between successfully identifying assets and actually recovering them.