In the latest twist in the ongoing Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) and beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) reporting requirements saga, news came from Washington on March 21, 2025, that the Financial Crimes...more
3/28/2025
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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
3/4/2025
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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
December was a busy month of back-and-forth, on again and off again, for the Corporate Transparency Act’s (“CTA”) beneficial ownership information reporting requirements. On Thursday, January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court...more
1/27/2025
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The reporting requirements of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) are once again paused, according to a decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the “Fifth Circuit”) filed on December 26,...more
On Monday, December 23, 2024, a three-judge panel for the Fifth United States Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the preliminary injunction issued earlier this month, which paused enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act...more
12/27/2024
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On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the federal government from enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) nationwide. Texas Top...more
12/10/2024
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Ground leases are an important – if somewhat unusual – part of the real estate finance industry. Because they typically cover large expensive properties like Rockefeller Center and The Empire State Building, to name two, and...more
In perhaps the most significant Supreme Court bankruptcy ruling since Stern v. Marshall, the Supreme Court today—by a 5-4 majority—overruled the Second Circuit’s approval of the Purdue Pharma Chapter 11 plan and its...more
The Supreme Court reversed the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in favor of insurance companies in a unanimous decision written by Justice Sotomayor. In short, the United States Supreme Court held today that insurers facing...more
6/7/2024
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In a terse last-minute order, the United States Supreme Court stayed implementation of the Boy Scouts of America’s (“BSA”) confirmed Chapter 11 plan, which would have stripped thousands of survivor claimants of their ability...more
The Purdue Pharma bankruptcy case is going to Washington.
In a rare civil stay ruling from the highest court in the land, the United States Supreme Court stayed the recent decision of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals,...more
The Second Circuit’s decision on May 30, 2023, to reverse the Southern District of New York’s (SDNY) decision and uphold the Bankruptcy Court approval of third-party releases in the Chapter 11 plan of Purdue Pharmaceuticals...more
The unprecedented events of the last two weeks in the banking industry have been breathtaking. As the banking and capital markets turn their focus to the Federal Reserve and Washington, the crisis of confidence that has...more