John Wick - What You Need To Know about the Corporate Transparency Act
Cannabis Law Now Podcast: Cannabis Companies and the Corporate Transparency Act
Examining FinCEN FAQs, Proposed Legislation and Other CTA Developments
Navigating the Corporate Transparency Act - Payments Pros – The Payments Law Podcast
John Neiman on the Corporate Transparency Act
Webinar: Corporate Transparency Act
What Nonprofit Leaders Need To Know About the Corporate Transparency Act
Navigating Russia Sanctions
What Will the Corporate Transparency Act Mean for Your Business? [More with McGlinchey, Ep. 30]
Gary Kalman on Corruption and Compliance Programs
Compliance Perspectives: Due Diligence and Ultimate Beneficial Ownership (UBO)
Episode 8 -- The Critical Importance of Beneficial Ownership to Compliance
New register of beneficial ownership of UK real estate
FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 341, Brian Alster on the Problem of Beneficial Ownership
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) went into effect on January 1, 2024, and will impact millions of U.S. businesses by imposing requirements to file corporate transparency reports with beneficial ownership information...more
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the Proposal) on September 17, 2024, that seeks to strengthen recordkeeping for bank deposits held by nonbank companies on behalf of...more
So long ago that it may have slipped from memory, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted changes to the regime for reporting beneficial interests in publicly traded equity securities on Schedule 13G. The...more
Who may be interested: Board of Directors; Registered Investment Advisers; Registered Investment Companies; Broker-Dealers; Transfer Agents; Compliance Staff - Quick Take: The SEC announced that it settled charges against...more
"The law on 'knowing receipt' has perplexed judges and academics alike for several decades" – Lord Burrows (paragraph 99). In a decision with significant implications for claims involving fraud and breach of fiduciary duty...more
On June 24, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decided Packer ex rel. 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc. v. Raging Capital Management, LLC, reversing a district court decision that had held that a shareholder...more
On 24 April 2024, the UK Takeover Panel published PCP 2024/1 ("PCP 2024/1"), in which it is consulting on a significant narrowing of the types of companies that will be subject to the Takeover Code (the “Code”) - i.e., as...more
On October 18, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted amendments to the rules governing beneficial ownership reporting to “require market participants to provide more timely information on their positions...more
This week, the Ninth Circuit addresses the requirements for invoking a regulatory exemption to liability under Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. ROTH v. FORIS VENTURES, LLC - ...more
On October 10, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted amendments to the rules governing beneficial ownership reporting under Sections 13(d) and 13(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The adopting release...more
On October 10, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) adopted amendments to the rules governing beneficial ownership1 reporting under Sections 13(d) and 13(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the...more
On October 10, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Commission) adopted amendments to modernize the rules governing beneficial ownership reporting. The amendments shorten the deadline for initial and amended...more
On October 10, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it adopted final rules amending beneficial ownership reporting requirements under Sections 13(d) and 13(g) of the Securities Exchange Act...more
Walkers' regulatory partners Lucy Frew and Ian Mason consider the learning points for financial services providers (FSPs) from recent enforcement actions by Cayman regulatory bodies. While financial services and related...more
Welcome to March’s edition of the UK Tax Round Up. This month’s edition features comments on the recent Spring Budget together with a summary of some recent case law involving VAT due on services provided to ex-VAT group...more
California's statutory definition of "security" lists by name two types of trust certificates - collateral trust certificates and voting trust certificates. Cal. Corp. Code § 25109. Both of these certificates are also found...more
European Leveraged Finance Client Alert Series: Issue 4, 2019 - Most high yield indentures contain a "Change of Control" clause that relates to changes in the beneficial ownership of the issuer. We provide an overview of...more
The Luxembourg supervisory authority, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), and the Luxembourg government recently have taken measures to prepare for Brexit. In other developments, the Law of the...more
The SEC has recently announced settlement of enforcement actions targeting violations of beneficial reporting requirements under Section 13(d) of the Act. In one of the most recent actions (available here), the SEC’s...more
SEC Issues Guidance on Mutual Fund Fee Structure - The Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Investment Management recently issued a guidance update addressing disclosure issues and certain procedural...more
Compliance officers at financial institutions have made great strides in improving Know Your Customer (KYC) programs to focus on knowing their customers as a critical function in combating money laundering. As regulators...more
Investment Adviser AXA Wins Excessive Fee Trial - A federal judge in New Jersey has ruled in favor of AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company (AXA Equitable) and its wholly owned subsidiary, AXA Equitable Funds Management...more
I. Why Do REITs Have Ownership Limits in the First Place? - Ownership limitation provisions are designed primarily to protect one of a REIT’s most valuable assets – its status as a REIT under the federal income tax...more