On March 21, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued an interim final rule to the U.S. Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) that eliminates beneficial ownership...more
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On March 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a press release announcing that it would not enforce any penalties or fines or take other enforcement actions against U.S. citizens or domestic reporting companies...more
On February 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced that it would not issue any fines or penalties or take other enforcement actions for a failure to comply...more
On February 18, 2025, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle of the Eastern District of Texas stayed his prior injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) pending appeal by the U.S. Department of...more
On February 6, 2025, the SEC announced that it was providing a temporary exemption from compliance with Rule 13f-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), which establishes a mandatory short reporting...more
The SEC has been sued again in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, on the heels of that Court’s recent invalidation of the SEC’s newly-minted corporate buy-back rules. The new legal action asks the Court to...more
On October 13, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted new Rule 13f-2 to require monthly reporting of short sale positions and activity data on new Form SHO by institutional investment managers. The new rules...more