SBA Regulatory Alerts for
Business Acquisition Buyers

SBA updates its Standard Operating Procedures and issues new policy and procedural notices several times a year, and not every change gets attention outside of lender compliance departments. For a buyer financing an acquisition with an SBA 7(a) or 504 loan, some of these changes are administrative and some are structural, capable of killing a deal that was viable under the prior rule. This page indexes every SBA regulatory alert Acquisition Stars has published, newest first. Each alert covers one notice: the primary source, the exact effective date, what changed in plain terms, and a short checklist for buyers with a transaction already under LOI or in underwriting.

This index exists because SBA eligibility rules can change mid-deal. A structure that was financeable when you signed a letter of intent is not guaranteed to still be financeable when your loan reaches the lender's closing table, and the buyers who avoid a closing-week surprise are the ones whose deal team is tracking these notices as they are published, not discovering them during underwriting.