A vibrant M&A market is certainly a positive development for potential acquirers. Yet identifying the right deal is only part of the battle—the most challenging work begins once integration starts. Without a carefully planned and executed strategy, the odds of completing a successful merger plummet.

Using a professional registered agent makes sense when you are not a resident of the state or if don't have a permanent physical business address that's occupied during normal business hours. A professional registered agent also enables you to better safeguard your privacy.

Compliance missteps can have dramatic consequences. That's why it's important to maintain a thorough understanding of the issues that dominate global compliance.

Completing extensive due diligence searches is a sure fire way to help assure lenders that the asset at hand is a solid credit that will perform accordingly. To help put their best foot forward buyers and their respective counsels are turning to firms like CT to have more thorough due diligence searches conducted for an extra level of confidence.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is promising a new wave of cybersecurity enforcement actions, a move that figures to represent one of the more important regulatory trends of 2016.

The Cayman Islands have extended notification and reporting dates for the US and UK Foreign Account Compliance Act (FATCA) for 2016.

The goal of the FATCA law is to increase transparency into unreported, taxable income of U.S. taxpayers (both individuals and business entities) with foreign-held accounts.

In a first ever for a bank, Virginia Community Capital has switched its for-profit mandate to a socially responsible, but still profit oriented, model.

The Panama Papers is the name given to the more than 11.5 million confidential financial and legal records detailing information on over 214,000 offshore companies and their directors and shareholders. The documents reveal how many wealthy people around the world hide billions of dollars in assets from public scrutiny.

Serial acquirers share the three key factors to a successful acquisition.