Episode 349 -- Review of the BIT Mining FCPA Settlement
Episode 343 -- TD Bank Agrees to Pay Over $3 Billion for Systemic Violations of Bank Secrecy Act and Money Laundering Violations
Leadership Lessons From The West Wing — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Episode 342 -- How to Conduct an Internal Compliance Site Visit and Review
Wicked Coin: FIFA: Soccer, Scandal, and Sportswashing
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 47 - Fireside Chat With Bill Baroni and Jesse Eisinger
Public-Private Partnerships to Stem Corruption
Why Privacy is Your Secret Weapon Against Third-Party Risk
Due Diligence in AI: 3 things you need to survive AI scrutiny
Episode 337 -- Nicolas Garcia, GC at Orica, on Compliance Trends and Challenges in Latin America
Navigating Government Contracts: Diana Shaw on Oversight and Whistleblower Protections
A Third Party's Perspective on Third Party Risk
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis Companies and the Corporate Transparency Act
Episode 330 – Halyna Senyk on Anti-Corruption Progress in Ukraine
Episode 329 -- Bryn Sedlacek from Aravo on TPRM Holistic Risks and Unified Visibility
Episode 328 -- Sanctions Enforcement Risks and Redlines
Managing Corruption Risk in Latin America
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 38 - A Blueprint for Compliance: The Fraud Pentagon Theory
Examining FinCEN FAQs, Proposed Legislation and Other CTA Developments
Episode 320 -- NAVEX Hotline Report -- More Reports and Higher Substantiation
On December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the government’s emergency motion for a stay, effectively blocking a nationwide injunction issued by a district court against the Corporate Transparency Act...more
On December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the District Court’s nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et...more
On December 23, 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order granting the government's emergency motion for a stay pending appeal of the preliminary injunction against the Corporate Transparency Act...more
As noted in our client alert yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated the enforceability of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and lifted the preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District...more
On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated the enforceability of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), and the preliminary injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...more
The Fifth Circuit has granted the government’s request to stay temporarily the order and injunction issued by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, which had issued a nationwide stay prohibiting...more
In light of a December 23, 2024, federal Court of Appeals decision, reporting companies, except as indicated below, are once again required to file beneficial ownership information with the Financial Crimes Enforcement...more
Pending FinCEN guidance, CTA filing obligations are presumed to be reinstated effective immediately. This Corporate Advisory provides a brief update on recent litigation regarding the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and...more
The European Union this year finalized significant revisions to its rules countering money laundering and terrorist financing (the AML Package). In addition to strengthening the existing regulatory framework, the AML Package...more
On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, temporarily suspending enforcement of the Corporate...more
In our recent update on the nationwide preliminary injunction issued against the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements, we noted that we would continue to...more
On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., blocking enforcement of the Corporate...more
On December 9, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released its official position on the preliminary injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), issued on December 3, 2024, by the U.S. District Court of...more
Following the decision of a federal court on December 3, 2024, enjoining enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “Act”), FinCEN announced last week that reporting companies are not currently required to file...more
On Dec. 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction prohibiting the Treasury Department from enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act (the “Act”). The ruling...more
On December 3, 2024 a federal district court in Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), including the requirement that many companies must file disclosure...more
FinCEN has posted the following on its website in light of a recent litigation outcome regarding the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) in the Eastern District of Texas. As we have blogged, and as the below notes, other...more
On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., temporarily halting the enforcement of the...more
On December 3, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Corporate Transparency Act’s (“CTA”) reporting obligations nationwide, pending a final judgment on the...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) has hit a roadblock, and it is now subject to a nationwide injunction on both its implementation and its enforcement. On December 3, 2024, stemming from a lawsuit filed by several...more
On December 3, 2024, Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. et al. v. Garland, halting the...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) requires most companies—except for certain exempt entities—to disclose their ownership details to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”). A looming January 1, 2025 reporting...more
Congress passed the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) as an anti-money laundering initiative in 2021 designed to combat the use of anonymous “shell companies” to facilitate money laundering, terrorist financing, and threaten...more
As many entities are scrambling to complete and file their beneficial owner information report ("BOI") under the Corporate Transparency Act, ("CTA") before the January 1, 2025 deadline, the United States District Court for...more
This Corporate Advisory provides a brief update on recent litigation regarding the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its reporting requirements. It is not intended to, and does not, provide legal, compliance or other...more