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When you are working with your lender to seek forgiveness of your Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) Loan, you should keep in mind your appeal rights should the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) make any number of adverse determinations regarding that PPP Loan.  In August 2020, the SBA issued Interim Final Rules […]

The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (“CAA”), signed into law by President Trump on December 27, 2020, extended the CDC eviction moratorium until January 31, 2021.  The “Temporary Halt in Residential Evictions to Prevent the Further Spread of COVID-19” was originally implemented by the CDC on September 4, 2020, with an […]

After much handwringing, on December 27, 2020, President Trump signed into law H.R. 133, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (the “Act”), a $2.3 trillion government funding measure containing a $900 billion stimulus package.  One closely watched proposal that did not make it into the final stimulus package was a federal […]

On December 21, 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, a $2.3 trillion spending bill that includes $900 billion in stimulus relief.  President Trump is expected to sign the bill into law.  This article provides a brief summary of key provisions of the Act impacting the Paycheck Protection Program […]

COVID-19 and the resulting economic strains imposed by it required an unprecedented response by the U.S. government and federal banking agencies in order to get much needed emergency liquidity into the hands of small businesses. Unsurprisingly, to implement this response, the government turned to community banks, asking them to work […]