On April 30, 2020 the Federal Reserve released new term sheets
for the Main Street Loan Program, which is a $600 billion loan
program, that will include $75 billion capitalized by the Treasury
Department under the $454 billion Congressional appropriation of
Section 4003(b)(4) of Title IV of the CARES Act. The loans will
target small and mid-sized companies, defined as having less than
15,000 employees or $5 billion or less in 2019 annual revenue, and
will be made by banks and other eligible lenders, with the
government then purchasing between 85% to 95% of the lenders'
interest in the loans.
The summary we are releasing today highlights key aspects of,
and compares differences between, the three types of loans that
will be available under the Main Street Loan Program. On April 16,
2020 the Sheppard Mullin team provided comments to the Federal
Reserve on the previous draft term sheets it released for the Main
Street Loan program.
