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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

Morgan Lewis

FinCEN Removes BOI Reporting Requirements for US Companies and US Persons

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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

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

FinCEN’s Weekend Present: No More CTA for U.S. Companies

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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

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

Conyers

Cayman Islands: Legitimate Interest Access of Beneficial Ownership

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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

Ballard Spahr LLP

Treasury Announces Halt to CTA Enforcement—But Not Deadlines—for U.S. Citizens and Domestic Reporting Companies

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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

Butler Snow LLP

Treasury Department Limits Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act

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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

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

Greenberg Glusker LLP

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

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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

Stoel Rives LLP

Corporate Transparency Act – Enforcement Suspended Until Further Notice

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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

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

Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

Latest Update on Corporate Transparency Act Compliance: FinCEN Suspends Penalties for Failure to Report by Current Deadlines

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

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

Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.

Client Alert: Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) Reporting Requirements Update

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

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The Corporate Transparency Act is Back On–Again!

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

White and Williams LLP

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

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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

Warner Norcross + Judd

CTA Filing Obligations Back in Effect, but Further Developments Expected

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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

Husch Blackwell LLP

Nationwide Injunction Halts Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act - UPDATED February 21,2025

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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

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

Perkins Coie

Corporate Transparency Act: FinCEN Reinstates Reporting Requirements with March 21 Deadline

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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

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Back in Effect: Updated BOI Compliance Deadlines

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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

Morgan Lewis

US District Court Resumes CTA BOI Reporting Requirements as FinCEN Extends Deadline

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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

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