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Taking The Right Approach in Asset Searching and Recovery in 2025

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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

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Senators pen bipartisan letter arguing rescission of Treasury rule

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

Hogan Lovells

Changes in Beneficial Ownership rules under the new EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (EU) 2024/1624

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The adoption of the EU Anti Money Laundering Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (the “AML Regulation") marks a significant advancement in the European Union's efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing. Effective from...more

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Transforming Industries: How the EU's anti-money laundering regulation affects the non-financial sector

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The new EU Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (the “AML Regulation”) introduces significant changes to the regulation of non-financial sectors. By including new obliged entities, the EU demonstrates its...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

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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

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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

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Recyclage des produits de la criminalité et financement des activités terroristes : modification accélérée du régime canadien

Le 7 mars 2025, le ministère des Finances du Canada a annoncé la finalisation de modifications apportées à la réglementation en vertu de la Loi sur le recyclage des produits de la criminalité et le financement des activités...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Canada Accelerates Amendments to Its Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Regime

On March 7, 2025, Canada’s Department of Finance announced finalized regulatory amendments under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (PCMLTFA) that accelerate the in force date for several key...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

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

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: The Treasury Department Announces It Will Not Issue Fines or Penalties in Connection with Beneficial Ownership...

On February 27, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced it will “…not issue any fines or penalties or take any other enforcement actions against any companies based on any failure to file or update...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) Reporting Requirements are Back

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

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

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

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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

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CTA Reporting Requirements Reinstated With March 21 Deadline for Most Reporting Companies

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As a result of a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury on Tuesday, February 18, beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements under...more

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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

McDermott Will & Emery

Corporate Transparency Act Update: Reporting Obligations Reinstated

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On February 18, 2025, the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Smith v. US Department of the Treasury, No. 6:24-cv-336-JDK, entered an order staying (pausing) the nationwide preliminary injunction against...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Update: Despite U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) is Still On Hold

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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

Burr & Forman

FinCEN’s Residential Real Estate Rule Applicable to Non-Financed Residential Entity Real Estate Transfers Effective December 1,...

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Our friends at Chicago Title Insurance Agency have shared information regarding a new rule applicable to non-financed residential real estate transfers in which the purchaser is an entity or trust....more

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CTA Reporting Requirements Blocked Again

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It’s hard to keep track of the status of reporting obligations under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) these days, but in a second ruling during the holiday week, a court blocked the filing requirement again. ...more

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Fifth Circuit Reinstates CTA Injunction, FinCEN Still Accepting Voluntary Filings

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In a surprising reversal, on December 26, 2024, a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an Order that vacated (effectively reversing) the same court’s order from December 23, 2024, and reinstated a lower court’s...more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

CTA UPDATE – Fifth Circuit Reinstates Nationwide Preliminary Injunction

On December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland,...more

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