Author: Paul Thompson

Paul advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and lending and debt capital markets transactions. Having completed transactions involving over 45 countries, clients benefit from Paul’s global perspective and substantial international corporate transactions experience.

FinCEN Regulations: BSA’s Revised Beneficial Ownership Requirements

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) issued final regulations in 2022 to implement the revised “beneficial ownership information” disclosure rules for legal entities (the “Final Rule”) under the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), which is part of the comprehensive revisions to U.S. anti-money laundering statutes included in the Defense Appropriations Act of 2021. Specifically, the Final Rule implements Section 6403 of the CTA and requires reporting companies, including a range of U.S. legal entities and non-U.S. legal entities registered to do...