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Foreign Correspondent Podcast | The America First Investment Policy and What it Means for Investors
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Podcast - The "I" in FOCI and AI: Innovation, Intelligence, Influence
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AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 27: U.S. Healthcare Reimbursement Guidance for Foreign Life Sciences Companies
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Cross-border Investment Review and New Restrictions
2025 Perspectives in Private Equity: Public Policy
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 25: Venture Capital Trends and Fundraising Strategies for Foreign Startups Expanding to the U.S.
Foreign Correspondent: An FDI Podcast | Mapping the National Security Landscape for Investors
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 23: Shaping Georgia’s Energy Landscape: Insights From Commissioner Tim Echols
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 22: What Global Companies Need to Know About Navigating FDA Regulations and U.S. Market Entry
Taking the Pulse, A Health Care and Life Sciences Video Podcast | Episode 217: Japanese Investment in North Carolina’s Life Sciences Industry with David Robinson of Maynard Nexsen
Private M&A 2024: Key Trends and Forecasts
Everyone Come to Play: Exploring FOCI Mitigation Instruments
AGG Talks: Cross-Border Business Podcast - Episode 19: The Rise of Korean Investment in the Southeast U.S.
Episode 337 -- Nicolas Garcia, GC at Orica, on Compliance Trends and Challenges in Latin America
Understanding FOCI Mitigation
Scaling Success: Hanley Energy’s Journey From Ireland to the U.S.
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On March 21, 2025, FinCEN issued an interim final rule declaring that U.S. companies are no longer included in the definition of a “reporting company” under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”). This means that U.S....more
On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an interim final rule (the “Interim Rule(goes to new website)”) that significantly alters beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting...more
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On March 2, 2025, the Treasury Department expanded the scope of FinCEN’s February 27, 2025 statement that it will not enforce any penalties or fines under the Corporate Transparency Act with respect to existing regulatory...more
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On August 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued its final rule requiring certain investment advisers to implement anti-money laundering (“AML”) compliance...more
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Many Americans have not noticed the paragraph above their signature line on the 1040 and other IRS and state tax forms, which notifies the taxpayer that they signed their tax return "under the penalties of perjury" and that...more
El 02/23/24, el Grupo de Acción Financiera Internacional (GAFI o “FATF”), una entidad intergubernamental independiente que desarrolla políticas para la protección de nuestro sistema financiero global contra el lavado de...more
On 2/23/24, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an independent inter-governmental entity that develops policies for protection of our global financial system from money laundering, terrorist financing and financing of...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) became effective on January 1. The CTA creates a new national database of companies, maintained by the US Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), to...more
There have been some interesting developments of late with respect to the ownership of real property in parts of the English-speaking world. For example, Canada has imposed a temporary ban on the purchase of such property by...more
On January 25, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an alert to financial institutions on potential investments in the U.S. commercial real estate sector by sanctioned Russian elites, oligarchs, their...more
On September 29, 2022, the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued its highly anticipated final Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reporting provisions (Final Rule), thereby...more
US Regulatory Developments - US Senate Confirms Janet Yellen as Secretary of the Treasury - The U.S. Senate confirmed Janet Yellen’s appointment as secretary of the treasury after a vote on Monday. Secretary Yellen...more
Second of Two Posts on Evolving Issues Regarding Real Estate and Money Laundering - In our last post, we blogged on a major regulatory tool to combat the use of real estate as a potential vehicle for money laundering: the...more
In its 2020 National Strategy for Combating Terrorist and Other Illicit Financing (“2020 Strategy”), the U.S. Department of Treasury (“Treasury”) has laid out its AML and money laundering enforcement priorities. Last week, we...more
Growing Chinese illicit finance threats, vulnerabilities, and exposure are combining to increase illicit financing risk in the international financial system, judging from a series of recent advisories, sanctions actions,...more
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ANTICORRUPTION DEVELOPMENTS - Mega International Commercial Bank Co. Ltd. Fined $29 Million - On January 17, 2018, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board assessed Taiwan based bank Mega International Commercial Bank Co. Ltd. a...more