News & Analysis as of

Regulatory Requirements Business Entities Anti-Money Laundering

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

AML/CTF reforms: Rules take shape with further Consultation

A quick recap on reforms affecting reporting entities The Amended AML/CTF Act removed the concept of "designated business groups" and replaced this with "reporting group". The concept of "reporting group" means that, if...more

Ankura

Five Reasons Experience is Essential to Obtain Money Transmission Licenses

Ankura on

In the fast-paced world of business consulting, when it comes to choosing a consultant to secure money transmission licenses, experience offers significant advantages...more

Carey Olsen

Why the Cayman Islands continues to be a popular jurisdiction for offshore funds

Carey Olsen on

Over the past 25 years, the Cayman Islands have established themselves as a leading jurisdiction for alternative investment funds, with nearly 13,000 regulated open-ended funds and over 17,000 regulated closed-ended funds. As...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

New Reporting Requirement for Certain Residential Real Estate Transfers

Effective December 1, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) will implement new rules for non-financed residential real estate transfers. The purpose of the rule is to increase...more

IR Global

FinCEN’s New Interim Final Rule on Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting

IR Global on

On March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced significant changes to the Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting (BOIR) requirements (Department of the Treasury, 2025). This new interim...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Back in Effect: Updated BOI Compliance Deadlines - Update

Greenberg Glusker LLP on

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

White and Williams LLP

Phoenix-Like: the Corporate Transparency Act Returns, Reporting Requirements Due March 21, 2025

White and Williams LLP on

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

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.

New Deadlines for FINCEN Compliance Issued

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

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Return of the CTA: FinCEN Confirms that Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirements are Back in Effect with a New...

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

Fox Rothschild LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Back in Effect: March 21 Is the New Deadline to File Beneficial Ownership Reports

Fox Rothschild LLP on

The Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) reporting requirements are officially back in force, requiring non-exempt entities to disclose beneficial ownership information (BOI). This week, a Texas federal court lifted the last...more

Saul Ewing LLP

FinCEN Reinstates Beneficial Ownership Reporting Deadline Following Court Ruling

Saul Ewing LLP on

The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), enacted in 2021, mandates that companies disclose their true ownership to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to combat illicit financial activities. However, its...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Requirements Still on Hold

Saul Ewing LLP on

The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), enacted in 2021, mandates that companies disclose their true ownership to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to combat illicit financial activities. However, its...more

Otten Johnson Robinson Neff + Ragonetti PC

CTA Enforcement Remains Paused Following Supreme Court Ruling Granting Stay of Injunction

On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the federal government’s motion to stay the nationwide injunction preventing enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) entered by the United...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Beneficial Ownership Reporting: Litigation, Pending Legislation and Possible Future Executive Action Have Left the Fate of the...

The saga of the CTA continues. Adopted in January 2021, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is intended to assist in identifying beneficial ownership and control of entities operating in the United States in order to...more

Carey Olsen

Amendments to the BVI Business Companies Act

Carey Olsen on

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

McGlinchey Stafford

Game On: Preliminary Injunction on Corporate Transparency Act Lifted; Filing Deadlines Extended

McGlinchey Stafford on

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on December 23, 2024, issued an order lifting a prior order issued by a federal district court in the Eastern District of Texas granting a nationwide preliminary...more

Kerr Russell

CTA Reporting Requirements Resume: FinCEN Announces Extended Filing Deadlines

Kerr Russell on

On December 23, 2024, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al. staying the nationwide preliminary injunction...more

Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Compliance Mandate Reinstated and Filing Deadline Extended

Reporting companies are once again required to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements, although the deadline has been shifted slightly to allow those...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Injunction Lifted, Deadline to File Extended

Rivkin Radler LLP on

On Monday, December 23, 2024, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (the “Fifth Circuit”) lifted a Texas district court’s order enjoining the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network’s (“FinCEN’s) enforcement of the Corporate...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Federal Appeals Court Stays Nationwide Injunction of Corporate Transparency - Act #2

Fox Rothschild LLP on

An appellate panel has stayed the nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge in Texas that halted enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Hours later, the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)...more

Roetzel & Andress

Fifth Circuit Lifts Injunction on Corporate Transparency Act: New Reporting Deadlines Announced

Roetzel & Andress on

On December 23, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order granting the Department of Justice’s emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, lifting the nationwide injunction blocking the...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Fifth Circuit Resurrects Corporate Transparency Act; New Filing Deadline 1/13/25

Rivkin Radler LLP on

On December 23, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the stay on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), reinstating its enforcement nationwide. The CTA requires certain non-exempt entities to report the identities of...more

Allen Matkins

Updates to the Corporate Transparency Act's Beneficial Ownership Information Reporting Requirements

Allen Matkins on

This Alert covers updates from the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) regarding Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements resuming. In light of the federal Court...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Lump of Coal in the CTA Stocking: Texas Federal Court of Appeals Stays Injunction Against Corporate Transparency Act

Lowenstein Sandler LLP on

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has granted the government’s motion to stay the Eastern District of Texas’ December 3 nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act...more

Dickinson Wright

Are You Prepared for the Corporate Transparency Act? What to Know Before December 31, 2024

Dickinson Wright on

The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA” or the “Act”) became effective as of January 1, 2024.  It is the latest effort by the federal government to combat money laundering, tax fraud, and other illegal activity by bad actors. ...more

30 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide