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EIDL Repayment: Don’t Sit Idly By
An Interview with Glamis Haro, Senior Business Advisor, Columbia University Harlem-Small Business Development Center During the height of the pandemic, the SBA instituted a loan program for businesses in need of immediate assistance. Now, after a thirty-month...
Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Requirements Are Coming: What Your Business Should Know
For many businesses, new reporting requirements created under the federal Corporate Transparency Act are, as a recent Forbes headline put it, the “biggest issue you’ve never heard of.” The federal government is implementing rules that would require most entities...
The Gas Stove Debate: Issues NYC Condo and Co-Op Boards Should Consider
The debate over gas stoves has generated a great deal of heat on cable news networks and in the halls of Congress in recent weeks, but in New York City the question of whether to ban the use of fossil fuel-powered appliances has already been answered. In...
How Deferred Maintenance Guidelines Are Creating Compliance Challenges For Co-op and Condo Boards
Following the collapse of a high-rise condo building in Surfside, Fla., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said last year that they would not purchase loans for condo and co-op units in buildings with “significant deferred maintenance” or that have received a directive from a...
What Start-Up Companies Can Gain From An Outside General Counsel
Every company—no matter its size or stage of development—faces legal issues that would be best handled by an experienced in-house counsel. But for many start-up companies establishing a corporate legal department is difficult to justify when so many other operational...
NYC’s Greenhouse Gas Caps Are Coming: How Coop and Condo Boards Should Prepare
Condominium and cooperative boards have just one more year to prepare for strict new greenhouse gas emissions caps required under New York City’s Local Law 97. The law aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent starting in 2024 and then becomes more...