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Beneficial ownership registration requirement re-examined by the administrative judiciary

A&O Shearman on 5/29/2024

Initially, the UBO Decree mandated that companies, recognized foundations and associations, trusts, and fiduciary mandates based in Italy fulfill their duty to report data and information on ultimate beneficial ownership by...more

Beneficial Owners’ Register in Italy – A further step towards its implementation

Hogan Lovells on 6/1/2022

Pursuant to the Law Decree no. 55 of 11 March 2022 (the “Decree”), published in the Italian Official Gazette on 25 May 2022, information about beneficial owners of Italian companies, foundations, associations and trusts will...more

Italian decree on beneficial owner register published in the Official Gazette

Hogan Lovells on 5/31/2022

The long-awaited decree regarding the establishment and regulation of the beneficial owner register in Italy was published in the Italian Official Gazette. Following a public consultation, on 25 May 2022 the long-awaited...more

A rag-bag of changes to UK money laundering regulations

BCLP on 1/31/2020

UK regulations implementing the EU 5th Money Laundering Directive (“5MLD”) came into force on 10 January 2020: the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (“MLR 2019”). The regulations make a...more

AML Update: Central Register of Beneficial Ownership is Now Live

Dechert LLP on 10/2/2019

The Central Register of Beneficial Ownership of Companies and Industrial and Provident Societies (the Central Register) is now open and Irish entities have until 22 November 2019 to file their beneficial ownership details....more

Registration of Beneficial Ownership in French Companies

BCLP on 3/7/2018

France’s transposition of European Directive 2015/849 dated 20 May 2015 on money laundering is now in effect, with a compliance deadline of 1 April 2018. The provisions of Ordinance no. 2016-1635 of 1 December 2016...more

AML Beneficial Ownership Register for Irish Funds – Who’s Holding the Baby?

Dechert LLP on 9/19/2017

If you’ve been involved in the funds industry, you will be well aware of the ever-increasing focus on anti-money laundering and “know your customer” requirements by national and supranational regulatory bodies alike. In...more

The Extended UK PSC Regime

A&O Shearman on 8/1/2017

The UK’s beneficial ownership disclosure rules for persons with significant control (PSCs) over certain UK entities, introduced in April 2016, have been extended as part of the UK’s implementation of the EU’s Fourth Anti...more

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