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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

US Corporate Governance — 2025 Midyear Review

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an interim final rule in March 2025 that removes requirements for US companies to report beneficial ownership information under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)....more

Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC

Corporate Transparency Act – FinCEN Announces Domestic Reporting Companies Exempt From Filing

As promised, in order to reduce the burdens on placed on legitimate businesses, while still working to detect, prevent, and prosecute financial crimes, the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Corporate Transparency Act 2.0 – Narrowing Reporting Requirements

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On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued an interim final rule that significantly changes the reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”).  This alert summarizes...more

Ropes & Gray LLP

FinCEN Significantly Narrows Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Requirements

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On March 21, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) published an interim final rule (the “March 21 Rule”) that: Narrows (significantly) the beneficial ownership information (“BOI”)...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

The Treasury Department Introduces a New Twist in the CTA Saga

On March 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Treasury threw a new twist into the ongoing Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) enforcement saga by announcing that it will not enforce any fines or penalties against any U.S. citizens or...more

Proskauer - Regulatory & Compliance

Ping-Pong Match Appears Over: US Companies Apparently Definitively Relieved of Compliance Obligations Under the Corporate...

The Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA) requires a range of entities, primarily smaller, unregulated companies, to file reports with FinCen, and arm of the Treasury Department, identifying the entities’ beneficial owners,...more

Shipman & Goodwin LLP

Breaking News: Corporate Transparency Act - Filing Deadlines Can Be Ignored for Now and Maybe Forever for Some

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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the U.S. Department of the Treasury (FinCEN) has changed the rules once again on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Despite recently announcing that the new filing deadline for...more

White and Williams LLP

Latest Corporate Transparency Act Update from FinCEN: Enforcement Paused, For Now

Stay tuned – another shoe is likely to drop from Washington D.C. on the CTA (“Corporate Transparency Act”) in the next three weeks. As we previously reported on February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

FinCEN Resets the Corporate Transparent Act’s BOI Deadline to March 21

Due to the February 17, 2025, decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., 6:24-cv-00336 (E.D. Tex.), the prior enjoinment of the Corporate...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Update: FinCEN Extends Reporting Deadline for Companies

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On February 18, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a notice extending the deadline for reporting companies to file their Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reports under the Corporate...more

Shipkevich PLLC

BOI Reporting Back in Effect: Compliance Required by March 21, 2025

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On February 19, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced that most reporting companies under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) must now submit their Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reports...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Returns: New Deadline March 21, 2025

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Newly Formed Entities Have 30 Days to File - On February 17, 2025, the Eastern District of Texas in Smith v. United States Department of the Treasury lifted the last remaining nationwide preliminary injunction on...more

UB Greensfelder LLP

What the Latest Reinstatement of the Corporate Transparency Act Means

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Filing requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) have been reinstated. Per FinCEN’s (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s) most recent Alert released on February 18, 2025, the new deadline for filing...more

Cozen O'Connor

Latest CTA Injunction Stayed

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On February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas stayed the nationwide injunction it previously issued in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., 6:24-cv-00336 (Smith case)....more

Kerr Russell

CTA Enforcement Reinstated with New Compliance Deadlines

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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has stayed the last remaining nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury....more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Preparing Organisations for the New UK Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence

Fraud is the most common offence in the UK, amounting to 41% of all crime.  On 26 October 2023, the UK’s long-awaited Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 20232  (the Act) received Royal Assent, setting out...more

Miles Mediation & Arbitration

BOI Reports: What Business Owners and Attorneys Should Know

Starting last January, the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has opened a portal for businesses to file their beneficial ownership information reports (BOI). The BOI is the U.S. Treasury’s...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

Corporate Transparency Act Update: Nationwide Injunction Continues

On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay of the nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) (31 U.S.C. § 5336) and the Beneficial Ownership...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

CTA Reporting Remains Voluntary Despite Recent Supreme Court Decision

On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a nationwide preliminary injunction issued in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. et al. v. Garland et al., creating further legal uncertainty surrounding the Corporate Transparency Act...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

What’s Ahead as Corporate Transparency Act Comes to a Crossroads

The recent whiplash regarding the validity of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)—it was enjoined just to particular parties, then enjoined nationwide, then un-enjoined, then enjoined again, while other courts let it...more

Allen Matkins

Seriously, The CTA Imposes Only "Minimal Burdens"?

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American businesses have been experiencing whiplash over the status of the Corporate Transparency Act.  In early December of last year, Judge Amos L. Mazzant's  preliminarily enjoined the CTA and its implementing...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

The Corporate Transparency Act: Key Deadline Fast Approaching and Other Recent Updates for Companies

If your business has not yet focused on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), it is time to do so. Every entity formed or registered in the U.S. before January 1, 2024, must file beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports...more

BCLP

CTA and Corporate Governance: A Quick Guide for Situations Where CTA Comes into Play

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The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) was enacted by The U.S. Congress in January 2021 as a way to protect the United States financial system from being used for money laundering and other illicit activities....more

Winstead PC

Triggers That Require Reporting Companies to File Updated Beneficial Ownership Interest Reports

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On January 1, 2024, Congress enacted the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and its annual National Defense Authorization Act....more

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The Corporate Transparency Act: HOAs Don’t Need that Kind of Transparency

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One of the hottest topics in the HOA-world over the past year has been the implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Although enacted by Congress in 2021, registrations under the CTA became mandatory for newly...more

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