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COVID-19 team members Eli Rudolph and Simon Malinowski join Litigation Partner and host Rich Schoenstein to discuss the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act’s (CARES Act) Relief for Small Businesses. Our COVID-19...more
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On July 17, 2020, the U.S. Federal Reserve Board expanded the Main Street Lending Program to provide access to loans for eligible nonprofit organizations. Previously, nonprofit organizations were not eligible to participate...more
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The CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program provides loans targeted to small businesses to help keep their workers employed during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and offers loan forgiveness to borrowers maintaining a...more
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As the Small Business Administration grafts preexisting eligibility rules atop the Paycheck Protection Program, courts step in to expand access. ...more
On May 22, 2020, the SBA and Department of the Treasury issued two Interim Final Rules implementing the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provisions of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act). The...more
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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently issued an Interim Final Rule that confirms that when calculating the number of employees of an entity for purposes of determining eligibility for a PPP loan, an entity...more
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin issued a warning on the heels of the second funding of the federal Payroll Protection Program (PPP) that large or public companies will be audited if they received a loan under the program....more
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The SBA yesterday supplemented the interim final rules by limiting the amount of PPP loans that any single corporate group may receive....more
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