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Clark Letter to Levey [i] (November 1, 2007)

handle is hein.nccusl/nccpub01075 and id is 1 raw text is: William 21   Clark, Jr.
L      L  P                       267-402-4629 (Fax)
wi8iam.clark@dbr.com
Law Offices  November 1, 2007
One Logan Square
18TH and Cherry Streets
Philadelphia, PA  Under Secretary Stuart A. Levey
19103-6996  Department of the Treasury
215988-2700  1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
215-988-2757 fax  Washington, DC 20220
www.drinkerbiddle.com
NEW YORK  Dear Under Secretary Levey:
WASHINGTON
LOS ANGELES  I am writing in preparation for our meeting on November 8, 2007, to let you know who
SAN FRANCISCO  will be accompanying me and to remind you of some materials that members of your
CHICAGO  staff were going to prepare after our previous meeting.
PRINCETON
FLORHAM PARK  I will be attending in my capacities (i) as chair of a task force of the Committee on
BERWYN
WILMINGTON  Corporate Laws of the Section on Business Law (the BLS) of the American Bar
Association dealing with issues relating to disclosure of beneficial and record owners of
business corporations, and (ii) as Reporter for the Drafting Committee on Record Owners
of Businesses Act (the NCCUSL Committee) of the National Conference of
Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. The other persons attending from outside of the
federal government will be:
*  Jerry Daniel, Director of Government Relations for CT.
*  Allan G. Donn of Willcox & Savage in Norfolk, VA, representing the BLS
Committee on LLCs, Partnerships and Unincorporated Entities, and an advisor to
the NCCUSL Committee.
  Harry J. Haynsworth IV of Briggs and Morgan in Minneapolis, MN, the chair of
the NCCUSL Committee.
*  Thomas R. McNeill of Powell Goldstein, LLP in Atlanta, GA, representing the
BLS Committee on Corporate Laws.
*  Leslie D. Reynolds, Executive Director of the National Association of Secretaries
of State (NASS).
*  Larry D. Thompson, currently General Counsel of PepsiCo, Inc. and formerly
Deputy Attorney General of the United States, representing the BLS Committee
on Corporate Laws.
At my meeting with you and others from the Department of the Treasury in your office
on August 22, 2007, your staff agreed to prepare materials describing the types of
situations in which the lack of beneficial ownership information has hampered law
enforcement efforts and also to assemble English translations of the laws of other
countries that FATF has found compliant on the issue of availability of beneficial
is9      ownership information. I hope that someone is still working on assembling those
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