FCPA Compliance Report: Death of CTA
The Terminator: The QPRT as a Wealth Transfer Strategy and CTA Updates
FCPA Compliance Report: Jonathan Wilson on the Current Status of CTA Litigation
RoboCop: Overview of Corporate Basics and Compliance Filings
FCPA Compliance Report – Understanding the Corporate Transparency Act with Frank Tumminello
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
Digital Planning Podcast Episode: Estate Planning 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
FCPA Compliance Report – Jonathan Wilson on The NSBU Decision
Webinar: Corporate Transparency Act
What Nonprofit Leaders Need To Know About the Corporate Transparency Act
Recent Developments in Anti-Money Laundering - The Consumer Finance Podcast
How Will the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 and the Corporate Transparency Act Impact Banks’ Anti-Money Laundering Compliance Under the Bank Secrecy Act? A Discussion with Guest Matt Haslinger
What Will the Corporate Transparency Act Mean for Your Business? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 30]
The tension among regulators between the push for increased transparency and the need to protect individual privacy is always apparent in asset searching exercises. This tension is a global phenomenon, central to the ongoing...more
On May 27, Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) wrote to the Treasury encouraging recission of the interim final rule requiring “foreign reporting companies,” but not domestic entities or U.S. citizens,...more
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued an interim final rule that removes the requirement for US companies and US persons to report beneficial ownership information to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act....more
As discussed in our March 4 Client Alert, following its February 27 and March 2 announcements suspending enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and promising additional CTA compliance guidance, on the evening of...more
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
The Beneficial Ownership Transparency (Legitimate Interest Access) Regulations, 2024 commenced on 28 February 2025. Under these Regulations, the Cayman Islands Registrar (the “Registrar”) may provide access to the information...more
On March 2, 2025, the U.S. Department of Treasury announced that it will suspend enforcement of penalties and fines related to beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) for...more
The Treasury Department announced on March 2nd that it does not intend to enforce any penalties or fines against either U.S. citizens or domestic reporting companies and their beneficial owners under the Corporate...more
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
UPDATE as of 3/4/25: As of February 18, 2025, all nationwide injunctions barring the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) had been lifted. For approximately ten days, the CTA mandatory beneficial...more
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced that it will not issue any fines or penalties or otherwise take any enforcement actions based on any failure to file or update...more
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
In our most recent Alert on the highly controversial and largely litigated nature of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), we reported that the CTA was back in effect nationwide and that, but for a few exceptions, all...more
On February 17, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, in Smith et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury et al., stayed (lifted) the injunction blocking the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency...more
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
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has reinstated the beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Following recent court decisions, the deadline...more
On February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted the federal government’s motion for a stay pending appeal and lifted the nationwide preliminary injunction in Smith, et al. v. U.S....more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is back on. A federal judge in Texas has lifted the preliminary injunction issued in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, 6:24-cv-00336 (E.D. Tex.), which had previously prevented the...more
After weeks of legal ping-pong, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) reporting obligations are back in effect. On Feb. 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas lifted its nationwide injunction in...more
As of the posting of this article, reporting companies nationwide once again need to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) revised beneficial owner information (BOI) reporting deadlines. FinCEN has set the...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) introduced substantial new reporting obligations for a wide array of corporate entities. Generally, any domestic entity formed by filing documents with a secretary of state or similar...more
On February 19, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced that beneficial ownership information reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) are back in effect with a new...more
Earlier this week, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a new notice confirming that the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements are back in effect....more
UPDATE as of 2/20/25: The on-again, off-again Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) mandatory beneficial ownership reporting is now back in effect. On February 18, 2025, the Texas federal district court in Smith v. United...more
A nationwide preliminary injunction put in place on January 7, 2025 by a district court in Texas has been stayed pending appeal, reinstating the reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). However, the...more