Join Kelley Drye for a practical CLE webinar, “Avoiding Pitfalls and Trolls in Payment Agreements: Understanding How AI, Open Source and Licenses Impact the Payment Industry.” This session will help payments attorneys move...more
On March 26, 2025, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an interim final rule which narrows the scope of existing beneficial ownership reporting requirements under the...more
On March 2, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it would not enforce penalties or fines associated with beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)...more
On February 18, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) are...more
On January 20, 2025, on his first day in office, President Trump issued several sweeping executive orders intended to advance his immigration agenda. These measures will undoubtedly lead to an increase in immigration...more
With the return of more aggressive immigration policies under the administration of President Trump, now is a critical time for employers to ensure they are in compliance with immigration laws and have taken steps to protect...more
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Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) reporting requirements was once again put on hold over the holidays. On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an order...more
1/9/2025
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On December 23, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated the immediate enforceability of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). In the case Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland, a three-judge...more
On December 3, 2024, in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al. (Case No. 4:24-cv-478-ALM), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a preliminary nationwide injunction against the...more
On Tuesday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released the final version of the Personal Financial Data Rights Rule that requires many financial institutions, credit card issuers, and other financial service...more
This spring, California employers received two rare and substantial victories, alleviating some of the burden caused by frequent and costly wage and hour claims that plague California businesses. In 2023 alone, California’s...more
The leading cause of worker fatalities after transportation incidents and falls, is workplace violence. A law affecting all but a few California employers comes into force on July 1, 2024 to address this issue. Existing...more
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A year and a half has passed since one of the most remarkable jury verdicts in Illinois history. The Rogers v. BNSF case was the first Illinois Biometric Information...more
As discussed in our previous client advisory, earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama entered a final declaratory judgment concluding that the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA” or the...more
On January 1, 2024, the new beneficial ownership information reporting requirements (BOIR) went into effect under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Among other things, beneficial ownership reporting is intended to make it...more
On October 18, 2023, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment v. SEC, 5th Cir., No. 21-60626 upheld Nasdaq’s board diversity rule, which encourages greater board...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which becomes effective on January 1, 2024, creates novel obligations for millions of entities to report beneficial ownership information (BOI) and certain other information to the U.S....more
Under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which we have previously written about, reporting companies are required to report to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) certain identifying information about...more
Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released a notice of proposed rulemaking that would allow the agency to supervise and conduct examinations of certain non-bank providers of digital wallets and...more
The US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) published its Small Entity Compliance Guide (the “Guide”) for the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) on September 18, 2023. The Guide...more
On January 1, 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) comes into effect for reporting companies formed after that date, with reporting for existing companies taking effect a year later. With approximately six months...more
Two momentous decisions regarding the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) recently came down from the Illinois Supreme Court. First, the Court recently ruled in Cothron v. White Castle System Inc. that a BIPA...more
The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has been on the books as one of the nation’s most protective biometric privacy statutes since 2008. It was also one of the first to give individuals a cause of action for...more
On June 29, 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rejected Grayscale Investments’ proposal to convert Grayscale® Bitcoin Trust (OTCQX: GBTC) to a spot Bitcoin ETF. See SEC Order Disapproving a Proposed Rule...more
On March 7, 2022, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert advising financial institutions to be vigilant against attempts to evade recent U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia’s following that country’s...more