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Allen Barron, Inc.

The Due Diligence of an Asset Purchase

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The due diligence of an asset purchase is quite often given less priority and attention than it should (read: must) warrant. An asset purchase transaction is often quite complex financially and legally. The buyer agrees to...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

California Court Holds Mechanic's Lien Enforceable Despite Failure To Provide Preliminary Notice

In a recent case, the California Court of Appeal held that a contractor could foreclose a mechanic's lien, over the project owner's objection, even though the contractor had not provided a preliminary notice of lien to the...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Mechanics Lien Upheld Despite Lack of Notice to Senior Construction Lender

In an unpublished opinion, a California appeals court has upheld a subcontractor’s mechanics lien claim despite the subcontractor’s failure to strictly follow the procedural requirements set forth in the mechanics lien...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

50 State Lien Law Notice Requirements

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This quick reference describes general time requirements for filing lien notices in each state, plus Washington, DC. Seyfarth’s Construction team prepared the survey for use primarily by commercial contractors and real estate...more

White and Williams LLP

The New York Lien Law - Top Ten Things You Ought to Know

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Over the course of my career, I have had the privilege of working with and representing numerous construction lenders (and borrowers/developers) in the financing of some of the largest commercial projects in the United...more

King & Spalding

Texas Bankruptcy Court Awards Majority Stake in Reorganized Debtor to Unsecured Creditors After Avoiding the Value of the...

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On August 3, 2023, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas found that the majority of the shares of stock of a reorganized debtor should be allocated to unsecured creditors, and not the secured creditors,...more

McCarter & English, LLP

New Law Will Soon Improve Commercial Receivership Rules, Appointment Process in Connecticut

Lenders, investors, and mortgage servicers will have a more favorable and standardized framework for protecting their interests in distressed debt when applying for appointments of commercial receivers beginning July 1, 2023,...more

Cole Schotz

New York’s Building Loan Contract: Promises, Promises

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Nothing quite sets New York apart from other states’ attempts to balance the interests of construction contractor and construction lender as does New York’s iconic building loan agreement – or, to call it by its technical...more

Cole Schotz

Balancing Mortgage and Mechanics Lien Priorities in New York

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In an ideal world, the interests of contractor and lender involved in the same construction project are aligned: the project succeeds, and everyone is paid what they’re owed. But when the interests of contractor and lender...more

Snell & Wilmer

Coverage Construction: Arizona Supreme Court’s Osborn III Opinion

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In Fidelity National v. Osborn III Partners LLC, the Arizona Supreme Court recently decided the question of whether mechanics’ liens filed by a general contractor are a construction lender’s “own darn fault” if the liens...more

Goodwin

Breach of Contract and Implied Covenant of Good Faith Claims Survive Motion to Dismiss in Boardriders Uptier Exchange Dispute

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​​​​​​​Lenders seeking to challenge controversial, often punitive, liability management transactions scored a recent win in Boardriders. The transaction at issue, a priming uptier exchange transaction favoring certain...more

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TPC Bankruptcy and District Court Opinions Uphold Uptiering Transaction and Teach an Important Lesson on the Need for Express...

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A recent U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware opinion, In re TPC Grp. Inc., provided another instance of an uptiering transaction withstanding legal scrutiny and provides further support for the view that courts...more

Troutman Pepper

Bankruptcy Court Holds Title Holder Consent Is Enough to Give Collateral Rights to Debtor to Grant Liens

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On April 28, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the N.D. of Oklahoma in Kirtley v. Mabrey Bank (In re Rudick) held that an entity other than the debtor may grant a lien on the debtor’s property, affirming the legal standard that...more

King & Spalding

Bankruptcy Court Enters Verdict Against Lender Found to Have Caused Borrower’s Demise

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On December 23, 2021, Judge Stacey Jernigan of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas issued a verdict, following a bench trial, in favor of the Chapter 7 trustee of a metal manufacturing business and...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Recent Decision on Derivative Standing by a Creditors’ Committee to Challenge a Lender’s Liens

In many chapter 11 cases, creditors’ committees can play a vital role in maximizing the recoveries of unsecured creditors. But the powers of creditors’ committees are circumscribed by both the Bankruptcy Code and case law....more

Amundsen Davis LLC

Cross Collateralization Generally Not Created By Note Alone

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From time to time, we review loan files for clients to confirm they have the collateral they think they do. Assume a lender has a properly perfected $1,000,000 mortgage loan and a $500,000 line of credit secured by all of the...more

Snell & Wilmer

Can a Receiver Prime and Strip Liens Against Real Property?

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Courts overseeing receivers generally enjoy broad discretion in directing and approving a receiver’s proposed actions. But does that authority extend to a receiver not only granting a super-priority lien ahead of existing...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Lenders and Borrowers Beware: EIDL Fraud Alert

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Holland & Knight has learned through customary deal due diligence that some borrowers – especially those who received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan through the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) – may have...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Farm Lending Pitfalls For Urban Lawyers

OK, so you’re a sophisticated lending attorney in Metropolis who is comfortable with everything from aircraft financing to syndicated loans secured by casinos in Macau. Yet you feel a twinge of uncertainty when a business...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Advancing Agriculture: Security Interests and Article 9 Challenges (Part 2)

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In the second installment of this two-part series, Husch Blackwell's Elizabeth Benefield & Stephanie Kaiser will discuss security interests in agricultural lending and some of the issues a creditor may face in these areas....more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Hidden Liens in Custom Crush Relationships: How to Avoid Being Caught Between Creditors

Custom crush is an effective method for vintners to start and grow their label and brand without requiring the capital intensive investment of a dedicated winery. When evaluating potential custom-crush facilities and...more

Patton Sullivan Brodehl LLP

Purchaser Has No “Notice” from an Erroneous Abstract of Judgment

A judgment creditor can record an abstract of judgment, a document that identifies the judgment debtor and the amount of the debt. The abstract usually does not identify specific property.  As long as it properly...more

Snell & Wilmer

Five Land Banking Lessons Learned During the 2008 Great Recession

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Land banking was one of the hardest hit industries during the 2008 Great Recession. As the housing and financial markets declined drastically, many homebuilders terminated their option agreements with the land bankers and...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Having Trouble with CARES Act Forbearances in Ch. 13 Bankruptcy? You’re Not Alone!

Consumers that have pending Chapter 13 bankruptcy cases undoubtedly suffered from financial hardship prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. For many of those consumers, the pandemic may have exacerbated that hardship...more

Kilpatrick

This Servicing Counselor identifies issues a servicer considers when a borrower requests a release of part of the collateral that...

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Example 1. Borrower’s loan documents provide that borrower may obtain the release of noteholder’s lien on a portion of the collateral (Parcel C) if: (1) borrower pays a $1.5 million release price to pay down part of the...more

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