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Steven Mnuchin has announced that further details on accessing the SBA’s Covid-19 relief loan program should be available later this week. At this point, applications for the program are not available, but Mnuchin’s announcement hopefully… Read More

For your information, FactorLaw has prepared the following discussion of how and when chapter 11 can be a viable option for small businesses (or their owners) that are dealing with financial distress caused by the Covid-19 Crisis (the “CVC”). Alt… Read More

In today’s challenging economic environment a lifeline for small businesses may be harder to access — high interest rate small business loans. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal from March 28, 2020, “banks and financia… Read More

The massive economic stimulus plan circulating in Congress right now will permit more businesses or individuals to take advantage of Subchapter 5 of the Bankruptcy Code (which FactorLaw has analyzed in prior posts) by increasing the debt cap from $2,… Read More

We have been alerted by an email from the Kreshmore Group, an advisory firm in Illinois, about a new programs called the “COVID-19 Federal Disaster Loans for Small Businesses and Nonprofits According to the email from Kreshmore: On 3/19/2020, t… Read More

In In re Orlandi, 19-8001 (6th Cir. BAP Feb. 28, 2020), the Sixth Circuit BAP held that a chapter 7 debtor’s liability on a lease guaranty had been discharged when the guarantor/debtor filed for bankruptcy relief years earlier. Thus, the landlo… Read More

1. THE SUBCHAPTER 5 ELECTION. Chapter 11 now contains a “Subchapter 5” which applies only to “small business debtors” that make a so-called “Subchapter 5” election. See 11 U.S.C. §§ 1181-1195. Absent such an election, the small business… Read More

As a follow-up to our series of articles on the use of Merchant Cash Advances (see here, here, and here), we learned today that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill last week aimed at preventing predatory lenders from using the state’s… Read More