The SBA stopped accepting new SVO Grant applications on August 20, 2021. The SBA is currently reviewing submitted SVO Grant applications and issuing both initial and supplemental awards. As of December 13, 2021, the SBA had...more
The SBA stopped accepting new SVO Grant applications on August 20, 2021. The SBA is currently reviewing submitted SVO Grant applications and issuing both initial and supplemental awards. As of November 8, 2021, the SBA had...more
The SBA stopped accepting new SVO Grant applications on August 20, 2021. The SBA is currently reviewing submitted SVO Grant applications and issuing both initial and supplemental awards. As of October 25, 2021, the SBA had...more
The SBA stopped accepting new SVO Grant applications on August 20, 2021. The SBA is currently reviewing submitted SVO Grant applications and issuing awards. As of September 20, 2021, the SBA had made decisions on 95% of all...more
The SBA stopped accepting new SVO Grant applications on August 20, 2021. The SBA is currently reviewing submitted SVO Grant applications and issuing awards. As of September 7, 2021, the SBA had made decisions on 93% of all...more
The SBA is currently reviewing SVO Grant applications and issuing awards. As of July 19, 2021, the SBA had made decisions on 95% of all applications. SVO Grant program reports, which detail the number of applications...more
The Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program was created by Section 324 of the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits and Venues Act (Economic Aid Act), which was enacted on December 27, 2020. The SVOG...more
The purpose of this alert is to inform our clients about the new guidelines for the promotion of Mexican cinema published on March 12, 2021, in Mexico's Federal Official Gazette (Diario Oficial de la Federación)....more
[co-author: Laura Peterson] Originally published on December 30, 2020 and updated as of April 7, 2021. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “CAA”), which provides $900 billion in new COVID-19 relief funding, was...more
COVID-19 Updates April 9, 2021 *The SBA opened the application process on Thursday, April 8, but has temporarily suspended the SVOG application portal due to technical difficulties. Applicants may continue to register for a...more
Although it’s been a tough twelve months for many live music venues, movie theaters, and performing arts organizations, help may finally be around the corner. On December 27, 2020, the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small...more
[co-author: Laura Peterson] Originally published on December 30, 2020 and updated as of March 18, 2021. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “CAA”), which provides $900 billion in new COVID-19 relief funding, was...more
On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act into law. This legislation provides additional pandemic relief for small businesses, adds grants for restaurants, increases funding for grants for...more
[co-author: Laura Peterson] - Originally published on December 30, 2020 and updated as of March 10, 2021. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “CAA”), which provides $900 billion in new COVID-19 relief funding,...more
Playhouses, music venues, movie theaters, museums, and other live performance spaces that have been largely shuttered for nearly a year as a result of COVID-19 will soon be eligible to apply for grants of up to $10 million...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “CAA”), which provides $900 billion in new COVID-19 relief funding, was signed into law on December 27, 2020. Section 324 of Title III of the CAA, the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit...more
Signed into law at the end of 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) — often referred to as the COVID-19 stimulus package — earmarked $15 billion in federal grants for certain live venue operators and other...more
A recently passed relief bill will provide $15 billion in federal funding toward grants for “shuttered venue operators,” making funding available to an industry that has been particularly impacted during the COVID-19...more