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In March, we wrote about the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issuing a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) aimed to combat Mexican-based drug cartels. The GTO signals Treasury’s efforts to...more
Days after the United States Treasury Department and its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced it was suspending enforcement the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), (you can read about that in our last client...more
On March 2, the United States Treasury Department announced a permanent suspension of Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) enforcement against domestic reporting companies and their beneficial owners. Foreign companies and...more
UPDATE 2/26/25: There continue to be developments regarding the Corporate Transparency Act ("CTA") and the applicability of related filing obligations. Please note the following recent updates...more
Developments concerning the enforceability and enforcement of the CTA came at a rapid clip last week. As things stand, the government may enforce the CTA pending a Texas court appeal in Smith v. U.S. Department of the...more
On Tuesday, February 18, 2025, a Federal district judge in Texas lifted the nationwide preliminary injunction issued in Smith v. U.S. Dept. of Treasury, which means that the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) and its...more
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
On February 18, a federal court lifted the remaining injunction blocking enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), previously discussed. In response, FinCEN has stated that the reporting deadline for existing...more
CTA filings are obligatory again. Most reporting companies have until March 21, 2025 to complete their filings. If you adopted a wait-and-see posture in regard to making your CTA BOIR filings, the wait is unfortunately over....more
Effective February 18, 2025, and until further notice, beneficial ownership information report filings under the Corporate Transparency Act are once again legally required. The deadline for most reporting companies to file...more
On Feb. 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.) granted the federal government’s motion to stay a nationwide preliminary injunction...more
On February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (EDTX) lifted the nationwide injunction to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's (FinCEN) enforcement of the Beneficial Ownership...more
Companies are once again required to comply with the CTA and its reporting obligations. As discussed in our previous update, last month the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) stayed (i.e., suspended the effect of)...more
On February 17, a federal judge in Texas lifted a preliminary injunction issued in Smith v. United States Department of the Treasury, removing the last legal hurdle to the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) remains on hold due to a nationwide injunction granted by a federal District Court in Texas in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury. However, given pending legal battles and...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) continues to take reporting companies on a roller coaster ride. Now, there are not just one, but two Eastern District of Texas federal cases challenging the requirement for certain...more
Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) remains on hold while litigation proceeds, and reporting companies are therefore not required to file reports at this time. However, reporting companies may continue...more
On February 5, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of appeal and motion for stay of the injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) issued by the Eastern District of Texas in Smith...more
On February 5, 2025, the Trump administration added a new chapter to the saga that has been implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), filing a notice of appeal and motion for stay against an Eastern District of...more
(2/6/25) Update as of February 5, 2025: The government appealed the nationwide injunction blocking CTA enforcement in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., 6:24-cv-00336 (E.D. Tex.). FinCEN updated its...more
On February 5, 2025, the United States filed a motion in the case of Samantha Smith, et al., v. United States Department of Treasury, et al., to stay the order of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas,...more
On January 23, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the nationwide injunction entered by the federal district court in the Eastern District of Texas in the case styled Texas Top Cop Shop v. McHenry, which had barred enforcement of...more
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
On January 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court granted the government’s application for stay of a recent district court’s preliminary injunction of the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)....more
On Jan. 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court reinstated a stay on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Dec. 26, 2024, decision, which had upheld a lower court’s nationwide injunction blocking enforcement of the Corporate...more