Client Alert: Main Street Lending Program
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Juan Zuniga ·
Isabella Dominguez ·
July 13, 2020
Updated July 10, 2020
The Main Street Lending Program (“MSLP”), created by the CARES Act and incorporated into Section 13(3) of the Federal Reserve Act, will provide a total of $600 billion in financing for small and medium-sized businesses affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Using funds allocated by the CARES Act, the Federal
Rimon Partner Joe Rosenbaum featured in the Cyberspace Lawyer with article, “Managing Contract Risks & Remedies in a Time of Coronavirus”
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Joseph I. (“Joe”) Rosenbaum ·
July 02, 2020
Joe Rosenbaum's article "Managing Contract Risks & Remedies in a Time of Coronavirus", featured in the Thomson Reuters publication Cyberspace Lawyer, Volume 25, Issue 5.
Read the publication below.
Joe Rosenbaum is a New York‐based partner at Rimon, P.C. and Chair of Rimon’s Global Alliance. Rimon is an
Enterprise Playbook: Legal Challenges & Customer Relations During COVID-19
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Dror Futter ·
June 22, 2020
Rimon Partner Dror Futter was recently featured in venture fund Work-Bench’s Enterprise Playbook Series. In his article, Dror covers topics such as: How to best handle customer and contract evaluation, contract renegotiation, contract renewal, contract termination, handling non-paying customers, and force majeure.
Read more here.
New Amendment to PPP Loan Forgiveness terms
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Juan Zuniga ·
June 09, 2020
On June 5, 2020, the new Paycheck Protection Flexibility Act (“PPPFA”) entered into law which materially changed certain terms of the Paycheck Protection Program previously created under the CARES Act. The emphasis of the PPPFA is to ease the criteria that small business borrowers must comply with to have their PPP loans
Rimon Partner Juan Zuniga participates in SDVLP COVID-19 legal advice clinic
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Juan Zuniga ·
May 28, 2020
Rimon Partner Juan Zuniga recently participated in the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Progam (SDVLP), COVID-19 Small Business and Nonprofit Brief Legal Advice Clinic, which provides free legal help to eligible small businesses and nonprofits impacted by the pandemic. Participating attorneys provided pro bono legal advice on a variety
Fine Art goes online: the (virtual) reality of COVID-19 and the changing face of the fine art markets
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Sam Miller ·
May 11, 2020
We wrote earlier about the COVID-19 shutdown threat to gallery solvency, and possible creditor claims to works on consignment.
Now two months into confinement, the threat to galleries is real with a quarter of Los Angeles fine art galleries responding to the Los Angeles Times April 20, 2020 Fine Art Gallery Survey that they
Webinar: COVID-19 Legal Watch – Top 10 Steps for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs)
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Sponsor Keller Center of Princeton University Date & Time May 5th, 2020, 12 pm ET Why You Should Attend Rimon Partner, Dror Futter, spoke on "COVID-19 Legal Watch – Top 10 Steps for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs)." COVID-19 may prove to be life-threatening to many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Times haveGetting out of, delaying, modifying, or enforcing contracts as a result of COVID-19 or related government actions and restrictions
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David W. Tate, Esq. ·
April 28, 2020
Many businesses and contracting parties are looking at the possibilities of getting out of, delaying, modifying, or enforcing contracts as a result of COVID-19 or government actions and restrictions.
Typical legal issues and arguments relating to those actions include: force majeure clauses, impossibility, commercial impracticability,
COVID-19 Mexico: Baja California Orders Temporary Closure of Maquiladoras
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Juan Zuniga ·
Mariana Acedo ·
April 27, 2020
The Secretary-General of the State of Baja California, Amador Rodriguez, ordered the temporary closure of all maquiladoras[1] as of April 16, 2020. The Secretary-General explained that this measure was taken after many companies continued operations, despite not being considered “essential” activities as defined in the order
COVID-19: Mexico Declares Public Health Emergency
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Juan Zuniga ·
Mariana Acedo ·
April 15, 2020
On March 30, 2020, the Mexican government declared a public health emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, the Ministry of Health issued new measures to suspend all “non-essential” activities until April 30, 2020 (the “Order”), and established that only those activities deemed “essential” may