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No SBA Protest Review of Approved 8(a) Mentor-Protégé JVs

Client Alert | less than 1 min read | 02.10.12

In Trident, LLC (Jan. 24, 2012), the SBA’s Office of Hearing and Appeals found that SBA area offices have no jurisdiction to review the substance of 8(a) mentor-protégé agreements or joint venture agreements if they have been approved by the SBA’s Office of Business Development before the “final award” of an 8(a) contract. OHA then reversed the size determination made by the area office because it had “no authority (or reason)” to repeat a review of the joint venture agreement for compliance.

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Client Alert | 2 min read | 03.11.26

Bipartisan Group of State Attorneys General and State Charity Regulators Send Letter to GoFundMe: Implications for Charities and Companies

On March 3, 2026, a bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general and state charity regulators (the “States”) sent a letter[1]to GoFundMe expressing their concerns about GoFundMe's creation of donation web pages for more than 1.4 million charities without their prior knowledge or consent....