Our 2023 Highlights Included:

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• Assisting multiple successful engineering and construction firms with operations in multiple states in maintaining their DBE certification in the face of improper proposed decertifications and intrusive agency investigations. 
   

• Obtaining a decision by the USDOT Departmental Office of Civil Rights reinstating our client's DBE certification, finding that the state certifying agency engaged in misconduct, intimidation, and coercion, and allowing our client to maintain access to a critical pipeline of work.
   

• Supporting numerous large construction contractors, with revenues ranging from $500mm to $1bn, in understanding and complying with complex federal and state licensing requirements, small business participation requirements, and other regulatory frameworks to provide them access to valuable contracting opportunities.
   

• Assisting multiple small businesses, including an IT business and a specialty trade company, in maintaining their 8(a) certification by drafting and submitting personalized statements of social disadvantage.
   

• Helping multiple large and small construction management companies with long-term strategic planning to gain or maintain access to contracts earmarked for small, disadvantaged, minority, or women-owned businesses.
   

• Representing multiple small, woman-owned businesses in breach of contract and nonpayment disputes against business partners and customers, recovering significant revenue.
   

• Assisting our clients in obtaining and keeping critical government contracting certifications - including MBE, DBE, WBE, and others - preparing submissions and responding to agency inquiries on the state and federal levels.
   

• Supporting our valued clients in a wide array of business transactions. We drafted, negotiated, and finalized purchase and sale agreements, teaming agreements and subcontracts, partnership agreements, complex equity arrangements, service agreements, vendor agreements, credit and loan agreements, and other key transactional documents.
   

And more!