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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Fearless Fund Settles: Settlement Will Shape Law on Race-Based Grantmaking in Eleventh Circuit While Leaving Issue Unresolved...

Over the last year, we have monitored a lawsuit in Georgia that alleged a hedge fund (“Fearless Fund”) violated 42 U.S.C. § 1981—the federal prohibition on racial discrimination in contracting—by operating a grant contest...more

PilieroMazza PLLC

GAO Finds That Federal Agencies Have Made Few SBIR Awards to Small Businesses Majority-Owned by Multiple Venture Capital Operating...

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The purposes of the Small Business Innovation Research (“SBIR”) program include, among other things, the use of small businesses to meet federally funded R&D needs and the fostering and encouragement of participation by SDBs...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Agencies Continue to Shy Away from Awarding SBIR Funds to VC/Private Equity-Backed Small Businesses

On December 21, 2018, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a report analyzing contract and grant awards of Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding to small businesses owned by multiple venture...more

Locke Lord LLP

U.S. Treasury Department Requests Information on Online Marketplace Lending

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On Monday, July 20, 2015, the United States Treasury Department (UST) published a notice and request for information (RFI) in the Federal Register in order to request public comment on online marketplace lending. The RFI...more

Dechert LLP

Old Wine in New Bottles: The Emergence of the P2P Small Business Lending Securitizations

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This last year has seen an uptick in activity in the peer to peer commercial loan market in the U.S., which, broadly speaking, includes loans made by non-traditional financing sources to small businesses (“P2P Commercial...more

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