On Thursday, July 23, 2020, the New York State Legislature voted to approve companion bills (S 5470/A 10118-A), commonly referred to as the “New York State Small Business Truth in Lending Act” (NY TILA). In passing the NY...more
The California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) has issued proposed regulations to implement SB 1235, the bill signed into law in September 2018 that requires consumer-like disclosures to be made for certain commercial...more
The California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) has started the process of developing regulations to implement SB 1235, which imposes new disclosure requirements for commercial financing in the state....more
This September, Governor Jerry Brown signed SB 1235 (Stats. 2018, Ch. 1011) into law. In a nutshell, SB 1235 adds a new division to the Financial Code imposing specific loan disclosure requirements on providers of commercial...more
The California Department of Business Oversight (DBO) has issued an invitation for comments from stakeholders in developing regulations to implement SB 1235, the bill signed into law on September 30, 2018 that requires...more
In February, I noted the introduction of a bill that would require any person engaged in the business of commercial financing to provide specified disclosures to prospective borrowers. On September 30, Governor Brown signed...more
On September 30, 2018, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law SB 1235 (the Act), which requires disclosures of key terms in connection with certain commercial financing by non-banks and could impact bank/non-bank...more
An ice cream parlor franchisor in Ohio, Handel Enterprises, Inc., must defend claims that it violated the California Franchise Investment Law (CFIL) for failing to disclose its amended franchise disclosure document (FDD) to a...more
Way back in February, I wrote about a bill, SB 1235, that would impose specific disclosure requirements on persons engaged in the business of commercial financing. In the ensuing months, the bill was amended eight times,...more
Yesterday, Broc Romanek reported that Corp Fin has published a new C&DI addressing the permissibility of electronic delivery of disclosures under Rule 701(e). Readers will recall that Rule 701 is an exemption from the...more