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The Beneficial Ownership Transparency (Access Restriction) Regulations, 2024 (the “Access Restriction Regulations”) commenced on 28 February 2025 and will supplement the Beneficial Ownership regime in the Cayman Islands. The...more
The Register of Overseas Entities (Protection and Trusts) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 were published, alongside an explanatory memorandum. The Regulations amend the Register of Overseas Entities (Delivery, Protection and...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), enacted to combat financial crimes, requires certain entities to report beneficial ownership information (BOI) to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). While legal challenges...more
Following the implementation of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023, Companies House enacted some initial changes over the course of 2024 to improve transparency and ensure the accuracy of the information...more
On 2 January 2025, the BVI Business Companies (Amendment) Act, 2024 and the BVI Business Companies and Limited Partnership (Beneficial Ownership) Regulations, 2024 (the “Amendments”) came into effect. The Amendments impact...more
Stop me if you have seen this before. You visit the website of a U.S. privately held manufacturer, and you click on the “About Us” page (if one exists) to find only generic information that could describe any manufacturing...more
On January 1, 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act, 33 U.S.C. §5336, (the “CTA”) took effect and strict compliance must be met by all entities and individuals to which it applies. The CTA adds reporting requirements for...more
Transparency or privacy – which of these priorities prevails? A ruling on 22 November 2022 by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) might mean privacy prevails when it comes to the question of whether or not a...more
On January 1, 2023, amendments to the Ontario Business Corporations Act (“OBCA”) came into effect. Most notably, the OBCA now requires that private corporations in Ontario create and maintain a register of all “individuals...more
As of April 1, 2023, the number of Canadian jurisdictions with beneficial ownership transparency requirements in force will have risen to ten. With the implementation of new transparency regimes in Saskatchewan, Québec and...more
Amendments to the Act respecting the legal publicity of enterprises (LPA), which require registrants (described below) to declare their “ultimate beneficiaries,” will come into force on March 31, 2023. Corporate ownership...more
In a judgment handed down on 22 November 2022, the European Court, sitting as the Grand Chamber, held an anti-money-laundering directive to be invalid which required Member States under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of...more
In the early hours of 15 March 2022, the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act (the “Act”) came into force. The rapid passage of the Act through the UK Parliament, after years of delays, came in response to...more
On 28 February 2022, the Government published its final position on Companies House reforms ahead of introducing legislation that will change the Registrar’s statutory role from being a largely passive recipient of...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), a segment of the larger National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, was enacted into law on January 1, 2021. The legislative intent of the CTA is to combat money laundering...more
Congress took a significant step on Friday, December 11 to prevent the owners of “shell” limited liability companies, corporations and “similar entities” from using those entities to disguise their identities and transactions...more
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Corporate Transparency Act of 2019 (HR 2513) by a vote of 249-173, including 25 Republicans, on Oct. 22, 2019. A companion bill is being reviewed by the Senate. The purpose of HR...more
This newsletter provides a snapshot of the principal US and selected international governance and securities law developments during the first quarter of 2017 that may be of interest to Latin American corporations and...more