Taft partner Kiamesha-Sylvia Colom co-presented at the American Bar Association’s Business Law Virtual Section Annual Meeting on Sept. 24. The session was titled “The COVID Pivot: Lessons from the Industry’s Historic Adoption of the Paycheck Protection Program.”

Colom is chair of Taft’s COVID-19 SBA Task Force. She focuses her practice in the areas of real estate transactions, real estate lending and commercial finance transactions, and related business transactions. Colom has extensive experience closing SBA, USDA, and conventional commercial loans for commercial lenders and borrowers related to real estate, equipment, machinery, and C&I lending. Her extensive base of knowledge covers an array of commercial loan types, including government guaranteed lending, asset based line of credits, term loans, real estate transactions, and construction loans. Additionally, Colom has assisted banks with recovery of yearly financial documents, past due funds, liquidation, and government guaranteed purchasing processes.