On April 8, 2025, then Acting Chairman Mark T. Uyeda of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), highlighted in remarks before the Annual Conference on Federal and State Securities Cooperation two areas where...more
4/22/2025
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The Financial Crimes and Enforcement Network of the U.S. Treasury Department (FinCEN) on March 21, 2025 announced an interim final rule (the “Interim Rule”) which, if finalized in its current form, exempts all domestic...more
The last remaining nationwide injunction pausing obligatory reporting under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and the related regulations (31 C.F.R. § 1010.380) was lifted on February 17, 2025. Absent further...more
On January 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court ruled on McHenry v. Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., granting the Government’s application to stay the injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) initially ordered by...more
1/27/2025
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For followers of developments related to National Bank Act (NBA) preemption and the United States Supreme Court’s related decision in Cantero v. Bank of America, N.A., 602 U.S. 205 (2024), the waning days of 2024 proved...more
1/17/2025
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Following up on our most recent blog post on developments regarding the enforcement date for the Corporate transparency Act (“CTA”), on December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Panel that will ultimately be handling the merits of...more
12/30/2024
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Following up on our most recent blog post on developments regarding the enforcement date for the CTA, on the afternoon of December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit issued its order staying the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...more
12/24/2024
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As discussed in our prior blog post, on December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (“District Court”) issued an order preliminarily enjoining enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act and...more
Updated December 10, 2024 to reflect the U.S. Government has filed a notice to appeal the lower court's injunction.
On December 3, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (“Court”) entered a sweeping...more
On October 2, 2024, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) announced it had settled enforcement proceedings against Thrivent Investment Management, Inc. (“Thrivent”), a SEC dually-registered broker-dealer and...more
On Sunday, September 29, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed California Senate Bill 1047, which would have established novel safety regulations on large artificial intelligence (AI) models. Known as the Safe and Secure...more