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
In the latest twist involving the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the only nationwide injunction still in effect that barred enforcement of the CTA’s filing deadlines (Smith vs. U.S. Department of the Treasury) was stayed...more
On Feb. 17, the Texas federal district court in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury granted the government’s motion for an immediate stay pending appeal of the nationwide order staying the effective date of the final...more
Here are the latest developments in the ongoing Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) saga...more
Supreme Court Lifts Fifth Circuit’s Corporate Transparency Act Injunction; Second District Court Enjoins Beneficial Ownership Reporting Rule and Requirements Remain Fluid - On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court...more
Considering conflicting rulings, businesses remain understandably confused about whether to file their mandated Beneficial Ownership Reports with FinCen. As of this writing, the answer remains that businesses may file but are...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the government’s motion to lift the nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in Texas Top Cop Shop v. McHenry (formerly, Texas Top...more
On Thursday, January 23, 2025, in an 8-1 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed one of the two nationwide injunctions of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) pending the conclusion of the Fifth Circuit appeal and any...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
In the Texas Top Cop Shop case, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on Dec. 3, 2024, issued an injunction that deferred all reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). (See Holland...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the federal government’s motion to stay the nationwide injunction blocking the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) enforcement, issued by the federal district court of the...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
On January 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court ruled on McHenry v. Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., granting the Government’s application to stay the injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) initially ordered by...more
As of the posting of this article, reporting companies nationwide do not need to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) revised beneficial owner information (BOI) reporting deadlines, though the situation may...more
Despite a Supreme Court order issued on January 23, 2025, as of January 24, 2025, FinCEN has stated they are not requiring companies to file under the CTA. On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court, in an unsigned order,...more
In the latest twist on the back-and-forth CTA battle, on January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) once again stayed (i.e., suspended the effect of) the nationwide preliminary injunction against...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling that appears to settle – for now – a nearly two-month-long legal battle over the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), which began with a nationwide preliminary...more
On Jan. 23, the Supreme Court granted the U.S. government’s application to immediately stay the nationwide CTA injunction issued last month by a federal district court in the Eastern District of Texas. See Texas Top Cop Shop,...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted an injunction that had blocked enforcement of the CTA and its regulations, as originally issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on December 3,...more
All eyes were focused on how the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) would respond to the application for stay filed by the federal government on New Year's Eve seeking a stay of the preliminary nationwide injunction issued by a...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government may enforce the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) while the Fifth Circuit continues to review a constitutional challenge to the law. Previously,...more
“In light of a recent federal court order, reporting companies are not currently required to file beneficial ownership information with FinCEN and are not subject to liability if they fail to do so while the order remains in...more
Not content to have an expedited hearing in March on the merits of the case at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the Government filed an application...more
December 2024 gave businesses and practitioners whiplash trying to follow the bouncing ball about whether the Corporate Transparency Act was enforceable or unconstitutional. This article summarizes the events of the past...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) has been on a journey this past month with a whirlwind of court rulings: halted by a federal district court, reinstated by the Fifth Circuit’s motions panel, had its reporting deadlines...more
On December 26, 2024, in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland, No. 24-40792, 2024 WL 5224138 (5th Cir. Dec. 26, 2024), a merits panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order vacating the...more