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#2175009 - 04/24/18 10:10 PM IOLTA's and Beneficial Ownership
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Okay, so I know there are a few threads out there covering IOLTA's and Beneficial Ownership. Having said that, we have a non-profit customer that consists of many different law groups and it is confusing me with respect to collecting BO information. Here is the example:
1. Law Foundation is a non-profit with the board made up of attorneys from different law firms throughout the state
2. Law Foundation sends paperwork with Law Firm Customer A and they open account under the Law Foundation account as a subaccount. Firm Customer is not the primary.

Do we collect BO information on the Foundation and the Firm? I understand the FinCEN guidance on if the attorney opens up the account under themselves, but this is ran through an intermediary. Help appreciated!!!

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#2190202 - 08/22/18 10:40 PM Re: IOLTA's and Beneficial Ownership TotalBSa
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We are looking at the Foundation and not the individual accounts. There's a lack of guidance regarding this topic so we decided to treat the foundation as the agent and IOLTAs subaccounts for purposes of beneficial ownership identification.

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#2190204 - 08/22/18 10:43 PM Re: IOLTA's and Beneficial Ownership TotalBSa
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Interesting scenario for IOLTA accounts. Just curious - what State is this?
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