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Federal Court Upholds CFPB’s Small Business Lending Rule

On August 26, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas issued a decision upholding the legality of the CFPB Small Business Lending Rule (the “Rule”) (designed to implement section 1071 of the...more

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California federal district court grants summary judgment for DFPI in lawsuit challenging state’s regulations requiring...

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A California federal district court recently granted the motion for summary judgment filed by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) in the lawsuit filed by an advocacy organization seeking to...more

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Bad Omen: CA Imposes New Fee, UDAAP, and Annual Reporting Requirements on Small Business Financers

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Mere days before Halloween, California enacted California Senate Bill 666, imposing a set of restrictions on the fees that commercial financers may charge their small business customers. Signed by the governor on October 13,...more

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SBA 8(a) Program Regulatory Changes: Follow-On Contracts

On April 27th, the U.S. Small Business Administration (“SBA”) published a final rule making changes to the regulations governing the 8(a) program. This final rule is SBA’s implementation of the proposed rules issued by the...more

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Harris Beach Monitoring PFAS Regulations for Drinking Water

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Four months after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed federal drinking water limits on “forever chemicals,” Harris Beach continues to monitor for a final resolution to the proposed regulations. A...more

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CFPB Finalizes Small Business Lending Data Rule

A far-reaching new federal regulation will for the first time require small business lenders to collect detailed data about applications and originations, and report that data to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...more

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EPA Seeks Input From the Slaughterhouse to Reduce Nutrients in Discharged Wastewater

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On Jan. 18, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it is seeking input regarding the development of Meat and Poultry Products (“MPP”) Effluent Limitations Guidelines Rulemaking Revision.  As part of this process...more

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[Webinar] Post Mid-Year Government Contracts Round-Up: Compliance – Highlights from the First Part of 2022 - August 16th, 2:00 pm...

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Thus far in 2022, the Biden administration has focused on a number of key areas as they relate to government contractors. Join attorneys from Venable's Government Contracts Group for a discussion of key developments in...more

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New Small Business Tools from the National Defense Authorization Act

New Past Performance Regulations from the SBA: Section 868 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, Public Law 116–283, required the Small Business Administration (the SBA) to develop regulations that...more

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New York Moves Forward to Regulate Commercial Loan Disclosures to Small Businesses

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In the absence of a federal law requiring disclosures be provided to small businesses, regulators in California in 2018, and now New York, have jumped into the void. With the Enactment of the New York Commercial Finance...more

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SBA Issues Regulations on New Round of PPP Loans

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On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Department of Treasury released interim final rules related to the expansion and extension of the original Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and the...more

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New Small Business Rules: Capabilities Of Small Business Joint Venture Members And First-Tier Subcontractors

As we recently discussed, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) has published a long-awaited rule that made important changes to numerous small business contracting programs and the rules Federal agencies must follow...more

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Focus on Forgiveness: The Latest Paycheck Protection Program Regulatory Developments

The SBA has continued its wave of regulations and guidance as PPP borrowers begin to apply for loan forgiveness. New regulations address nuanced, but important, issues such as “owner-employee” compensation and the...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Weekly IRS Roundup July 27 – July 31, 2020

Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of July 27, 2020 – July 31, 2020... July 28, 2020: The IRS issued final regulations providing...more

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SBA Clarifies HUBZone Employee Residency Requirements

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently published a list of frequently asked questions (with the SBA’s answers) about recent changes to the Historically Underutilized Business Zone (or HUBZone) program, which is...more

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Weekly IRS Roundup November 18 – 22, 2019

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of November 18 – 22, 2019. November 19, 2019: The IRS published final regulations that affect United...more

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A Reminder Regarding the Importance of Unconditional Control, and Potential Eligibility Issues Relating to the Revised SDVOSB...

The recent decision in CVE Appeal of Valor Construction, Inc, SBA No CVE-121-A (June 3, 2019) provides a useful reminder to contractors regarding the difference between unconditional ownership and unconditional control, and...more

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Weekly IRS Roundup May 6 – 10, 2019

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of May 6 – 10, 2019. May 7, 2019: The IRS released Revenue Procedure 2019-22 updating Revenue...more

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The End of the Line: Federal Circuit Dismisses the Veterans Contracting Group SDVOSB Appeal as Moot

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On Nov. 20, 2018, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit seemingly ended the Veterans Contracting Group line of cases. As a refresher, in those cases, the contractor challenged the U.S. Small Business...more

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New California Law Mandates Small Businesses Provide Parental Leave

On October 12, 2017, Governor Jerry Brown signed the New Parent Leave Act into law, extending unpaid leave to bond with a new child within one year of the child’s birth, adoption, or foster care placement to employees of...more

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Government Contracts Increasingly Further Labor-Policy Goals

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This past year, the federal government implemented a variety of rules requiring that its contractors meet certain fair-labor requirements. For example, a federal rule finalized in September requires federal contractors to...more

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Latest California ADA Lawsuit Reform Attempt: “Watered Down Solution”

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Seyfarth Synopsis: In yet another effort to limit predatory ADA lawsuits, California Governor Jerry Brown recently signed into law – effective immediately – legislation that will provide small business owners with some...more

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SEC’s Crowdfunding Rules

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Crowdfunding is a popular and controversial form of selling securities using the internet. Prior to the passage of the JOBS Act, which was designed to facilitate capital formation for small companies, such sales generally...more

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New Opportunities for Women-Owned Small Businesses

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The Small Business Administration (“SBA”) issued a finale rule, on September 14, 2015, implementing Section 825 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 to allow the federal government to issue sole...more

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10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Import From Cuba

One aspect of the dramatic shift in U.S. policy toward Cuba that has not been widely reported is a relaxation of the old rule prohibiting imports of most Cuban goods and services. Under the new rules, if your Cuban supplier...more

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