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Ornella Belfiori is Senior Associate in the White Collar Crime, Investigations & Compliance department at ADVANT Nctm. Earlier in her career, she worked for almost nine years at a global law firm and, prior to that, she gained experience as a Summer Associate at the Brussels office of ADVANT Nctm.
Ornella provides practical, day-to-day advice on trade compliance issues of all varieties. She is particularly skilled in creating successful strategies for handling economic sanctions adopted, amongst others, by the European Union and OFAC, as well as export controls regimes. She frequently counsels clients in connection with custom related product classifications and supports them in liaising with competent Authorities to obtain relevant licenses and authorizations.
Ornella regularly advises clients in international enforcement matters, including those arising under the FCPA and other anti-bribery legislations. She gained substantial experience in handling cross-border internal investigations across a broad range of topics including, among others, bribery and corruption, fraud, bankruptcy and tax crimes.
Ornella also routinely assists multinational companies in designing, developing, and implementing 231 Models, as well as global trade and anti-corruption compliance programs that meet local and international standards (FCPA, UKBA). She regularly supports Supervisory Bodies established pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/2001 and has been appointed monocratic Supervisory Body of two energy companies.
Ornella has been designated as the Ambassador for Italy of the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists (ACSS) and has been selected as the only Italian expert appointed by the European Commission to the EU Sanctions Helpdesk, serving as Senior Expert on EU Sanctions Due Diligence. She is also Visiting Lecturer at the International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA) in Vienna – where she got her Master in Anti-Corruption Studies (MACS) in 2023 – teaching the course "Corruption and Sanction Violations in International Trade: Strategies for Securing Global Supply Chains", which addresses high-risk sectors in connection with sanctions and corruption failures.
