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As you may know, we have posted numerous updates on the pending litigation surrounding the Federal Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) and enforcement of the CTA by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”).

On February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an order lifting

As you may know, we have posted numerous updates on the pending litigation surrounding the Federal Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) and enforcement of the CTA by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”).

On February 5, 2025, the Department of Justice on behalf of the Department of the Treasury filed an

As you may know, we have posted numerous updates on the pending litigation surrounding the Federal Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) and enforcement of the CTA by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”).

After considerable back and forth in the last several weeks on whether the CTA Beneficial Owner Information filing

As you may know, we posted an update on the pending litigation surrounding the Federal Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) and enforcement of the CTA by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”). On December 3, 2024, a nationwide preliminary injunction was issued by the Federal District Court for the Eastern District

As you may know, we posted an update on the pending litigation surrounding the Federal Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) and enforcement of the CTA by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”). On December 23, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Case No. 24-40792) issued an

As you may know, we posted an update on the pending litigation surrounding the Federal Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) and enforcement of the CTA by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”). On December 3, 2024, a nationwide preliminary injunction was issued by the Federal District Court for the Eastern District

On December 3, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order granting Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction, on a nationwide basis, of the Federal Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) and enforcement of the CTA by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

New York State recently adopted a new law known as the Freelance Isn’t Free Act (the “NYS Act”), as Article 44-A of the General Business Law. The NYS Act follows in the footsteps of a New York City law by the same name. Both laws address independent contractor arrangements and offer protections to certain independent

In our Transparency-is-in-Your-Future series, we have covered the timing and information required in beneficial owner information reports (“BOI reports”), what determines a beneficial owner of a reporting company, and the 23 exemptions to a reporting company under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”). As a reminder, for those entities existing before January 1, 2024, initial BOI

For those of you following our Transparency-is-in-Your-Future series, you already know that the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) went into effect on January 1, 2024 and now entities of all shapes and sizes are scrambling to figure out what information they need to report and when, or if they are perhaps exempt from the reporting requirements