(Editor’s Note: SFNet held a webinar on the California Financial Disclosure regulations on July 7. SFNet members can watch this webinar here. SFNet’s Advocacy Committee, under the guidance of Hamid Namazie of McGuireWoods, has engaged Hudson Cook, LLP to create a compliance guide for SFNet members. If you have questions, please contact Michele Ocejo at mocejo@sfnet.com.)

Commercial financing providers in California will soon need to comply with detailed disclosure requirements when making an offer of commercial financing to potential borrowers. The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s final implementing regulations for the state’s commercial finance disclosure law (CFDL) become effective on December 9, 2022. Other states that have been considering or already passed a CFDL—including New York—have been awaiting release of California’s regulations and are anticipated to soon release similar regulations.