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On July 21, 2025, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced that it was delaying the effective date of its final rule establishing Anti-Money Laundering/Countering the Financing...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
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
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
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
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) 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
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
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
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
Key Takeaway: Following a court decision on February 18, 2025, the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) beneficial ownership reporting requirements are once again in effect. Most companies will have until Friday, March 21,...more
On Feb. 17, the Texas federal district court in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury granted the government’s motion for an immediate stay pending appeal of the nationwide order staying the effective date of the final...more
The beneficial ownership information reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) are now back in force. As described in more detail below, the majority of Reporting Companies are required to file their...more
The courts have spoken, and the last nationwide injunction has fallen. FinCEN has a green light to enforce the Corporate Transparency Act, and the federal agency has set a new deadline in March for companies to report....more
The last remaining nationwide injunction prohibiting enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) has been stayed, clearing the way for the federal government to resume enforcing the CTA. In the case of Smith, et...more
On Feb. 5, the U.S. government filed (i) a notice of appeal of the order issued Jan. 7 by a U.S. District Court in Texas in Smith v. U.S. Department of Treasury, No. 6:24-cv-336-JDK (E.D. Tex. Jan. 7, 2025), which had issued...more
Seventy-two hours after a motions panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed the effect of a nationwide preliminary injunction imposed by a Texas federal district court blocking the reporting deadline for...more
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
On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order temporarily staying the nationwide preliminary injunction previously granted in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al. While...more
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
On December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an Order which granted a stay of a lower court’s nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA or the Act). Texas Top Cop...more
On December 23, 2024, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit lifted the preliminary injunction recently imposed by a Texas district court that had blocked the reporting deadline for filing Beneficial...more
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