Alternative investment strategies, including reverse mergers and
shell company transactions.
Not exact matches
Martello entered into an agreement with TSX Venture Exchange listed
shell company Newcastle Energy Corporation to complete a reverse takeover
transaction.
Many details of the new spinoff plan remain to be worked out, including who will run the Alibaba
shell company and whether the new
transaction will incur taxes.
The
transaction involves the private and
shell company exchanging information on each other, negotiating the merger terms, and signing a share exchange agreement.
The use of
shell companies in all - cash real estate purchases is an attractive tactic for criminals seeking to conceal their identities, and launder large sums of money — ALL while escaping scrutiny of the traditional anti-money laundering protections in place in financed real estate
transactions.
Lawrence Scheinert, director of the Office of Special Measures at the U.S. Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), presented a new program called the Geographic Targeting Order during the REALTORS ® Legislative Meetings & Trade Expo in Washington, D.C.. It's a temporary anti-money laundering program requiring U.S. title insurance
companies to report information about «covered
transactions» made by what's commonly known as
shell companies, Scheinert said at the Business Issues Policy Committee meeting.
The
shell company collected a portion of the title
company's profits and then redistributed those profits to the associates on the basis of the number of
transactions the associates referred to the title
company.