Taft partner Kiamesha Colom will participate in a briefing call on the CARES Act for the National Creditors Bar Association’s members on April 28. This program will include a discussion on the loan forgiveness provisions within the CARES Act and subsequent guidance issued through Interim Final Rules and authorized FAQs from the Department of Treasury.

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.