Program Details
2026-10-19 12:00:00
Over 1,000+ webinars
Course Overview
2026-10-19 12:00:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ESTThis session examines SBA’s August 20, 2026 proposed rules (RIN 3245-AI67 and 91 Fed. Reg. 54096) that would consolidate roughly 1,000 industry-specific size standards into 338 and eliminate the size-standard ceiling — producing thresholds as high as $531 million for IT services. Attorneys will learn which industries gain or lose small business status, how the revised three-factor methodology works, and what the shifts mean for set-aside competition, affiliation analysis, and M&A strategy. Attendees leave with a working map of the rule’s winners and losers and a framework for advising contractors, investors, and small business program participants before any final rule issues.
Eric S. CrusiusValarie Ney 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm ESTThis session translates the SBA’s size standards overhaul into practical counseling strategies for contractors, buyers, and investors. Using real-world scenarios, attorneys will assess how a client’s revised size status affects upcoming bids, set-aside eligibility, affiliation concerns, and pending or prospective transactions. The discussion will address what to do when a company moves from small to other-than-small status, how to approach size representations and recertification, when a transaction creates unexpected affiliation issues, and how to spot size-status problems before they become protest, enforcement, or deal-closing problems.
Eric S. CrusiusValarie NeyEric S. Crusius is a regulatory attorney at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP whose practice covers government contract and grant matters, including bid protests, claims and disputes, and compliance issues. When SBA proposed broad changes to small business size standards in August 2026, he was quoted on the proposal by Law360 and by Federal News Network. He has written on SBA’s proposed regulations signaling changes to multiple small business programs for Pratt’s Government Contracting Law Report, and he has spoken at the National 8(a) Association’s National Small Business Conference and at The National 8(a) Small Business Conference. He counsels clients on subcontracting and teaming agreements, domestic preferences, export controls, cybersecurity, and compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation, grant regulations, and agency supplements such as the DFARS.
Valarie Ney is a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Washington, DC, whose practice centers on mergers and acquisitions along with cross-border, securities, and corporate governance matters. She works across the full range of M&A structures — private company acquisitions and dispositions, auctions, joint ventures, licensing transactions, public company mergers and spin-offs, going private transactions, special committee representations, and tender offers — and practices across industries that include government contracting, technology, healthcare, pharmaceutical, energy, and manufacturing. Her governance work covers disclosure, compliance, and governance questions arising under SEC regulations, stock exchange rules, and state corporate law.
Eric S. Crusius is a regulatory attorney at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP whose practice covers government contract and grant matters, including bid protests, claims and disputes, and compliance issues. When SBA proposed broad changes to small business size standards in August 2026, he was quoted on the proposal by Law360 and by Federal News Network. He has written on SBA’s proposed regulations signaling changes to multiple small business programs for Pratt’s Government Contracting Law Report, and he has spoken at the National 8(a) Association’s National Small Business Conference and at The National 8(a) Small Business Conference. He counsels clients on subcontracting and teaming agreements, domestic preferences, export controls, cybersecurity, and compliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation, grant regulations, and agency supplements such as the DFARS.
Valarie Ney is a partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP in Washington, DC, whose practice centers on mergers and acquisitions along with cross-border, securities, and corporate governance matters. She works across the full range of M&A structures — private company acquisitions and dispositions, auctions, joint ventures, licensing transactions, public company mergers and spin-offs, going private transactions, special committee representations, and tender offers — and practices across industries that include government contracting, technology, healthcare, pharmaceutical, energy, and manufacturing. Her governance work covers disclosure, compliance, and governance questions arising under SEC regulations, stock exchange rules, and state corporate law.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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