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A Texas federal court has temporarily blocked the implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) nationwide. The decision, issued by Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the US District Court for the Eastern District of...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) was enacted in 2021 and became effective on Jan. 1, 2024. The CTA was passed with the aim of enhancing transparency in corporate ownership, so as to combat the proliferation of anonymous...more
A national study released in 2015 reported that “nearly half the residential purchases of over $5 million were made by shell companies rather than named people.”[ii] Because shell companies could often be formed without...more
Beginning January 1, 2024, most small businesses in the United States will have to report information about the people who own and control the business to the federal government. This new reporting rule was established by...more
On January 1, 2024, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) will go into effect, and if your business is deemed to be a Reporting Company under the CTA, the clock will begin ticking on new federal reporting obligations....more
On November 8, 2023, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) published a final rule detailing when and how reporting companies can use another entity’s FinCEN identifier in place of...more
Thursday, September 29, 2022, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a Final Rule regarding the beneficial ownership reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act...more
DOJ and Treasury Announce Multilateral Russian Oligarch Task Force Called “REPO” - On March 16, 2022, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen met with representatives from Australia,...more
“Know your customer” is a bed rock principle of anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance programs, but it’s not always easy, particularly as more sophisticated and aggressive players have taken the field in recent...more
In this Issue. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) published an alert warning financial institutions of possible efforts to evade U.S.-imposed sanctions on Russia and Belarus; the U.S. Department of the Treasury...more
The Corporate Transparency Act of 2020 (the “CTA”) was enacted in January 2021 as part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 to prevent the use of shell companies to evade anti-money laundering and economic sanctions...more
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (“NDAA”) enacted earlier this year includes several provisions that may impose new reporting requirements on both foreign and domestic businesses. NDAA is an...more
Congress recently passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) to require companies in the U.S. to disclose their beneficial owners to the U.S. government. Under the new law, businesses will be required to report the name,...more
Pillsbury partner and Public Policy group leader Elizabeth Vella Moeller recently sat down with Matthew McGuire, former Executive Director of the World Bank under President Obama, to discuss the Biden administration’s...more
On January 1, 2021, Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, an omnibus bill that includes the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (“AMLA”). The AMLA bans the use of anonymous shell companies...more
New federal requirements in the annual national defense budget reauthorization effectively will end anonymous U.S. shell companies by requiring businesses to disclose 25 percent owners and control persons to a newly created...more
As we wrote over the summer, Congress has passed a bill that will require certain corporations and limited liability companies (“LLCs”) to report information on their beneficial owners to the U.S. Treasury Department’s...more