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CERTIFICATION REGARDING
BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF LEGAL ENTITY CUSTOMERS
I. GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
What is this form?
To help the government fight financial crime, Federal regulation requires certain financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record
information about the beneficial owners of legal entity customers. Legal entities can be abused to disguise involvement in terrorist
financing, money laundering, tax evasion, corruption, fraud, and other financial crimes. Requiring the disclosure of key individuals
who own or control a legal entity (i.e., the beneficial owners) helps law enforcement investigate and prosecute these crimes.
Who has to complete this form?
This form must be completed by the person opening a new account on behalf of a legal entity with any of the following U.S. financial
institutions: a bank or credit union, a broker or dealer in securities, a mutual fund, a futures commission merchant, or an introducing
broker in commodities.
For the purposes of this form, a legal entity includes a corporation, a limited liability company or other entity that is created by a
filing of a public document with a Secretary of State or similar office, a general partnership, and any similar business entity formed in
the United States or a foreign country. Legal entity does not include sole proprietorships, unincorporated associations, or natural
persons opening accounts on their own behalf.
What information do I have to provide?
This form requires you to provide the name, address, date of birth and Social Security number (or passport number or other similar
information, in the case of Non-U.S. Persons) for the following individuals (i.e., the beneficial owners):
i. Each individual, if any, who owns, directly or indirectly, 25 percent or more of the equity interests of the legal entity
customer (e.g., each natural person that owns 25 percent or more of the shares of a corporation); and
ii. An individual with significant responsibility for managing the legal entity customer (e.g., a Chief Executive Officer, Chief
Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Managing Member, General Partner, President, Vice President, or Treasurer).
The number of individuals that satisfy this definition of “beneficial owner” may vary. Under section (d), depending on the factual
circumstances, up to four individuals (but as few as zero) may need to be identified. Regardless of the number of individuals identified
under section (d), you must provide the identifying information of one individual under section (c). Itis possible that in some
circumstances the same individual might be identified under both sections (e.g., the President of Acme, Inc. who also holds a 30%
equity interest). Thus, a completed form will contain the identifying information of at least one individual (under section (c)), and up
to five individuals (i.e., one individual under section (c) and four 25 percent equity holders under section (d)).
The financial institution may also ask to see a copy of a driver’s license or other identifying document for each beneficial owner listed
on this form. A legal entity may have multiple “beneficial owners,” this form requires you to list only those that own 25% or more
(up to four) under section d, above, and one individual with significant responsibility under section c.
In addition, the requirements vary for certain entity types:
• Because nonprofit corporations do not have ownership interests, only information related to the control of the nonprofit is
required under the rule.
• When a family/ living trust, directly or indirectly, through any contract or arrangement, owns 25 percent or more of the
equity interests of a legal entity customer, the beneficial owner under the ownership/equity prong is the trustee. Where there
are multiple trustees or co-trustees, one co-trustee who owns 25 percent or more of the equity interests of a covered legal
entity customer must be listed on the certification form.