The Past, Present and Future of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)

On May 28th, 2019, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) released a thematic review of Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) policy successes and gaps, ...

What Public Information is Available for a Cayman Islands Company?

What’s available in the public record for a Cayman Islands company is quite different than what you would find in the United States. Because ...

5 Tips for International Document Legalization

Has a transaction required you to retrieve and legalize a non-U.S. document for use in another country? If one or both of the countries ...

Transferring Domicile from One Country to Another

Extra Provincial Registration: Registering a U.S. Company To Do Business in Canada

As companies look to expand their markets outside the U.S., many are choosing to expand into Canada. An educated workforce, the lack of a ...

Use of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) for Financial Transactions Continues to Grow

Much has changed since our October 2016 introduction to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI).1 For the unfamiliar, an LEI is a unique ...

Doing Business in Canada?

Do you need to do business in Canada? If so, it is important to determine whether to incorporate federally or register for an extra-provincial ...

Doing Business in India: Seizing the Opportunity for Growth

Ranked the seventh largest economy in 2017, India is expected to overtake Britain and France in 2018 to be the fifth largest economy and is ...

What is an LEI (Legal Entity Identifier)?

Banks around the world are starting to mandate that their corporate borrowers obtain a Legal Entity Identifier (LEI), sometimes referred to as ...

2017 Blog Recap: The Articles You Liked The Most This Year

As 2017 is coming to a close, we at COGENCY GLOBAL are looking back at the all the blog posts we published this year to see which ones you ...