In this paper, I discuss a specific subtype of long distance agreement (LDA), namely agreement across a finite (CP) clause boundary. I show that most, if not all, in- stances of LDA depend on information-structural properties of the agreement tar- get in the embedded clause, be it for cross clausal object agreement or case assign- ment. After discussing LDA in unrelated language families, I argue that LDA is pos- sible due to a complex probe in the left periphery containing information-structural features bundled with φ-features. This probe serves as an intermediate agreement step between a verb in the matrix clause and the information-structurally marked element in the embedded clause, so that LDA does not violate the phase impene- trability condition.