Episode 377 -- Refocusing Due Diligence on Cartels and TCOs
FCPA Compliance Report: Death of CTA
The Terminator: The QPRT as a Wealth Transfer Strategy and CTA Updates
RoboCop: Overview of Corporate Basics and Compliance Filings
The Corporate Transparency Act
John Wick - What You Need To Know about the Corporate Transparency Act
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis Companies and the Corporate Transparency Act
Examining FinCEN FAQs, Proposed Legislation and Other CTA Developments
Navigating the Corporate Transparency Act - Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
John Neiman on the Corporate Transparency Act
Webinar: Corporate Transparency Act
What Nonprofit Leaders Need To Know About the Corporate Transparency Act
Navigating Russia Sanctions
What Will the Corporate Transparency Act Mean for Your Business? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 30]
Gary Kalman on Corruption and Compliance Programs
Compliance Perspectives: Due Diligence and Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO)
Episode 8 -- The Critical Importance of Beneficial Ownership to Compliance
New register of beneficial ownership of UK real estate
FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 341, Brian Alster on the Problem of Beneficial Ownership
After months of litigation—including a cameo before the Supreme Court—the last nationwide injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was vacated and the CTA was set to go back into effect. Since then, nothing has been...more
Two weeks after FinCEN received the green light from the courts to proceed with enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act, the U.S. Treasury Department has put the car in reverse....more
We previously reported that on December 26, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the Fifth Circuit motion panel’s stay of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) of the temporary injunction granted by...more
As of February 18, 2025, the US Department of the Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (FinCEN) Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) reporting requirements have been restored—at least temporarily. The new filing...more
Another curveball has been thrown in the never-ending back-and-forth surrounding the rollout of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). As detailed in our prior client memo, a federal district court in Texas issued a nationwide...more
The Corporate Transparency Act’s reporting obligations are once again in force. For virtually all reporting companies, the new deadline to file an initial, updated and/or corrected beneficial ownership information (BOI)...more
As of the February 18, 2025, decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., 6:24-cv-00336 (E.D. Tex.), beneficial ownership information (BOI)...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has announced that beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) are once again back in effect and the new deadline...more
Texas Federal Court Reinstates the Corporate Transparency Act The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., has lifted the “pause” on the Corporate...more
The preliminary injunction in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury that was still pausing any required filings by reporting companies under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was lifted on February 17, 2025 by...more
As we previously reported, on January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in favor of the U.S. government in relation to the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) – granting an emergency application to...more
While the United States Supreme Court recently lifted one nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Incorporated et al. v. McHenry (formerly Garland),...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), enacted in 2021, mandates that companies disclose their true ownership to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to combat illicit financial activities. However, its...more
On Jan. 23, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the Dec. 5 nationwide injunction in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland (E.D. Tex.) that had halted Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) enforcement nationwide. The stay of this...more
On January 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court granted the government’s application for stay of a recent district court’s preliminary injunction of the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)....more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) remains on hold despite a recent Supreme Court ruling. On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court granted the government’s motion to stay a nationwide injunction that had been issued by a...more
On Jan. 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court reinstated a stay on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Dec. 26, 2024, decision, which had upheld a lower court’s nationwide injunction blocking enforcement of the Corporate...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the nationwide injunction that had previously blocked the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) (Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. McHenry). The Supreme Court’s...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced in an alert posted on its website on January 24, 2025, that reporting companies under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) are not...more
Companies are still not required to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)—despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on Thursday suggesting otherwise. On January 23, the High Court stayed a December 3 injunction in...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the injunction issued by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland, et al. Case No. 4:24-cv-478 (E.D. Tex.) (Texas Top Cop Case)....more
A flurry of activity in the courts and guidance from FinCEN this week has the Corporate Transparency Act back in the news. However, the recent activity does not result in any immediate change for businesses. Filing beneficial...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to stay the nationwide injunction that had previously banned enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its key...more
December was a busy month of back-and-forth, on again and off again, for the Corporate Transparency Act’s (“CTA”) beneficial ownership information reporting requirements. On Thursday, January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay of the nationwide preliminary injunction issued by a federal district court in Texas in December 2024 in the Texas Top Cop Shop litigation....more