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Jacqueline (Jackie) Schaeffer

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Areas of Focus

Overview

Jackie Schaeffer is an associate in Crowell & Moring’s New York office and a member of the firm’s International Trade Group. Jackie focuses her practice on global compliance, regulatory enforcement, investigations, and transactional matters at the intersection of U.S. national security and international trade, including economic sanctions, anti-money laundering (AML), export controls, and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

Jackie received her J.D. from Stanford Law School where she was a Franke Fellow in Global Business Law.  She received her LLM in EU and International Business Law from The University of Vienna School of Law. During law school, she worked at the Estonian Foreign Ministry, clerked for the Honorable Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Rwanda, and worked with the United Nations Independent Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine.

Prior to law school, Jackie was a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in San Francisco. 

Career & Education

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    • University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., summa cum laude
    • Stanford Law School, J.D., 2023
    • University of Vienna Law School, L.L.M., 2023
    • University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., summa cum laude
    • Stanford Law School, J.D., 2023
    • University of Vienna Law School, L.L.M., 2023

    • New York
    • New York

    • Law Clerk for the Honorable Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Rwanda
    • Law Clerk for the Honorable Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Rwanda

    • Russian
    • Russian

Jacqueline (Jackie)'s Insights

Client Alert | 4 min read | 12.05.24

Federal District Court Issues Nationwide Preliminary Injunction Enjoining Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act

On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an opinion and order (the Order) enjoining the federal government, including the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), from enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and a FinCEN rule implementing the CTA, codified at 31 C.F.R. § 1010.380) (i.e., the Reporting Rule).  The Reporting Rule requires certain entities formed or registered to do business in the U.S. (reporting companies) to report information about themselves, including personal identifiers for their natural-person “beneficial owners.”  For background on the CTA and the Reporting Rule, please see our previous client alert discussing a separate district court’s decision (National Small Business United v. Yellen, No. 5:22-cv-01448 (N.D. Ala. Mar. 1, 2024) (NSBU) ruling the CTA unconstitutional.) ...

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Jacqueline (Jackie)'s Insights

Client Alert | 4 min read | 12.05.24

Federal District Court Issues Nationwide Preliminary Injunction Enjoining Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act

On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued an opinion and order (the Order) enjoining the federal government, including the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), from enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and a FinCEN rule implementing the CTA, codified at 31 C.F.R. § 1010.380) (i.e., the Reporting Rule).  The Reporting Rule requires certain entities formed or registered to do business in the U.S. (reporting companies) to report information about themselves, including personal identifiers for their natural-person “beneficial owners.”  For background on the CTA and the Reporting Rule, please see our previous client alert discussing a separate district court’s decision (National Small Business United v. Yellen, No. 5:22-cv-01448 (N.D. Ala. Mar. 1, 2024) (NSBU) ruling the CTA unconstitutional.) ...

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