Pub. L. 101-510, div. D, tit. XLIII (as amended)

(9) The term “affiliated”, with respect to the relationship between a mentor firm and a protege firm, means— (A) the mentor firm shares, directly or indirectly, with the protege firm ownership or management of the protege firm; (B) the mentor firm has an agreement, at the time the mentor firm enters into a mentor-protege agreement under subsection (e), to merge with the protege firm; (C) the owners and managers of the mentor firm are the parent, child, spouse, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, grandparent, grandchild, or first cousin of an owner or manager of the protege firm; (D) the mentor firm has, during the 2-year period before entering into a mentor-protege agreement, employed any officer, director, principal stock holder, managing member, or key employee of the protege firm; (E) the mentor firm has engaged in a joint venture with the protege firm during the 2-year period before entering into a mentor-protege agreement, unless such joint venture was approved by the Small Business Administration prior to making any offer on a contract; (F) the mentor firm is, directly or indirectly, the primary party providing contracts to the protege firm, as measured by the dollar value of the contracts; and (G) the Small Business Administration has made a determination of affiliation or control under subsection (h).