Four Attorneys Named Best Lawyers® "Lawyer of the Year" Five Attorneys Named “Ones to Watch” Trenam Law is pleased to announce that fifty-four of its attorneys have been listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2021. Additionally, four attorneys have been named Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year" in their particular specialty and…
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After a hiatus of over a month, on August 4, 2020, the Small Business Administration (the “SBA”) issued a new set of Frequently Asked Questions (the “New FAQs”). Unlike its previous FAQs (the last of which were issued on June 25th), which were a compendium in no particular order of…
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While COVID-19 has ravaged the restaurant industry along with much of the U.S. economy, Brian Tunis shared insights on why franchise restaurants could present a strong opportunity for investors in a July 31 article published by QSR. “While chain restaurant transactions were down 43 percent year-over-year in the week ending…
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Trenam Law is pleased to announce shareholder Marla D. Bohlander has been accepted into Class V of the Florida Fellows Institute. The Florida Fellows Institute was created by Florida Fellows of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) to develop our profession’s future leaders through a series of in-depth educational…
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Trenam Law is pleased to announce shareholder Robert G. Stern has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Real Estate Investment Council of Tampa Bay. He will serve as Secretary. Formed in 1982, the Real Estate Investment Council (“REIC”) is an organization of Tampa Bay professionals that share…
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On July 3, 2020, the President signed legislation extending the application deadline for small businesses to apply for the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”). The original deadline to apply for a PPP loan was June 30, 2020. Both houses of Congress unanimously passed the “PPP Extension Act” last week, and with…
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Stephanie Lieb was quoted in The Wall Street Journal and the WSJ Pro Bankruptcy newsletter on June 30, 2020 discussing investor interest in struggling restaurants amid the coronavirus pandemic. While five U.S. restaurant companies have found investors to acquire them out of bankruptcy, distressed retailers are facing more challenges for…
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The Small Business Administration (the “SBA”) continues to issue additional guidance for borrowers and lenders under the Payroll Protection Program (“PPP”) Flexibility Act of 2020 (the “PPP Flexibility Act”). This week, three additional Interim Final Rules and additional Frequently Asked Questions (“FAQs”) were published. The first Interim Final Rule (the…
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On June 15, 2020, the Federal Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on LGBTQ employee’s rights. In a Tampa Bay Business & Wealth article published on June 23, 2020, Alicia Koepke discusses the clarity this ruling provides employers across Florida, and the rest of the country, in regard to discrimination…
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The Small Business Administration (the “SBA”) last week issued a new Interim Final Rule on PPP loan forgiveness (the “Update Forgiveness IFR”) and provided two new Loan Forgiveness Applications. For the most part, these new publications implement the changes made by the PPP Flexibility Act (see Trenam Alerts: "What Will…
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