CFIUS Review Might Apply to Your Real Estate Deal - Most real estate professionals do not expect to seek approval from the president of the United States before closing a real estate deal. However, the U.S. Treasury...more
8/28/2024
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As the federal government seeks to procure more artificial intelligence (“AI”), machine learning (“ML”), synthetic content and other emerging technologies in the coming years, government contractors must be prepared to comply...more
On March 27, 2020, the CARES Act was signed into law to provide emergency financial assistance to Americans suffering the economic effects caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, including in the form of forgivable loans to small...more
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP's Food & Drug Newsletter is a monthly update of legal and regulatory issues that affect the FDA-regulated community and highlights articles from members of our Food & Drug practice, as well as from...more
2/1/2022
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On January 13, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court (“Court”) issued split decisions regarding Federal vaccine mandates issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Occupational Safety and Health...more
1/21/2022
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On December 7, 2021, R. Stan Baker, judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, enjoined enforcement of Executive Order 14042 (“EO 14042”) “in all covered contracts in any state or...more
On November 30, 2021, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky in the lawsuit, Commonwealth of Kentucky et al. v. Joseph R. Biden et al., Civil Action No. 3:21-cv-00055-GFVT, granted a preliminary...more
12/2/2021
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On April 27, 2021, President Biden issued an Executive Order requiring federal contractors and subcontractors to pay a minimum wage of no less than $15.00 per hour to all workers who are working on federal construction and/or...more
Government contractors currently access the U.S. General Services Administration’s System for Award Management (referred to in the industry as “SAM”) for only a few fundamental tasks: Register to do business with the U.S....more
On March 11, 2021, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan of 2021. This legislation includes a Restaurant Revitalization Fund (“RRF”) for which Congress has allocated $28.6 billion in program grants for eligible...more
3/17/2021
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Since March 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses have been forced, by local, state, and federal orders, and/or economic circumstances, to alter, reduce, or cease operations. As the business landscape...more
Many businesses in the live music and entertainment space have been uniquely affected by the pandemic and continue to face dire financial challenges as closure and social distancing mandates persist. Further, when the economy...more
On October 31, 2020, the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) published a Notice in the Federal Register seeking approval from the Office of Management and Budget for the collection of information through, among other...more
11/19/2020
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On September 22, 2020, President Trump issued Executive Order 13950, “Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping” (“Order”). The Order sets forth the policy of the United States “not to promote race or sex stereotyping or...more
In a significant development for the mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”) community, the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) issued a “Procedural Notice” which affects the requirement for companies involved in the buying...more
Earlier this month, the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) moved from a phase of “loan disbursement” to a phase of “loan forgiveness.” As explained in our August 11, 2020 Client Alert, the U.S. Small Business...more
Through the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”), which was authorized by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), banks certified as 7(a) lenders by the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”)...more
The Federal Reserve continues to make major changes to the Main Street Lending Program (the “Program”), a brand-new, multi-facility $600 billion lending program designed to make additional credit available to small and...more
On June 5, 2020, President Trump signed the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act of 2020 (“HR 7010” or the “PPP Amendment”) into law, after the House passed HR 7010 on May 29, 2020 and the Senate adopted HR 7010 by a...more
On May 13, 2020, SBA issued new guidance with respect to a borrower’s good faith certification that “[c]urrent economic uncertainty makes this loan request necessary to support the ongoing operations of the Applicant,” as...more
On May 5, 2020, SBA/Treasury finally answered the important question of whether a small business located in the US needed to count the number of employees of its “foreign affiliates” in its size standard eligibility...more
Businesses now have one extra week to conduct their risk/reward analyses to decide whether to return their PPP loans. In prior guidance (Treasury FAQ 31 and 37), the SBA reminded borrowers that they “should review carefully...more
On March 27, 2020, the President signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (the “CARES Act” or the “Act”) (Pub. L. 116-136), which provides emergency assistance and health care response for individuals,...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (the “Federal Reserve”) last week provided key guidance regarding the Main Street Lending Program (the “Program”), a...more
The private equity and venture capital communities have advocated forcefully that their portfolio companies should be able access loans available under the Paycheck Protection Program (the “PPP”), the $349 billion U.S. Small...more