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Real Estate Market Uniform Commercial Code (UCC)

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

2024 Rhode Island Legislative Session Report

The Rhode Island General Assembly adjourned sine die on Friday, bringing the 2024 legislative session to a close. Below is an overview of noteworthy legislation passed during the session....more

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP

Proposed Tax on Real Estate Mezzanine Debt and Preferred Equity Financing…Once Again.

Earlier this month, the New York State Senate (S318) and Assembly (A407) reintroduced proposed legislation seeking to extend the New York State mortgage recording tax to mezzanine debt and preferred equity financings. This...more

ArentFox Schiff

Maximizing the Value of Distressed CCRC Bonds

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Whether CCRC residency agreements are treated as leases or contracts under state law could impact the recovery of CCRC bonds in the event of the insolvency of the CCRC owner. Some states treat CCRC residency agreements as...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Courts: A Foreclosure Pandemic Pause? (Part 3)

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, borrowers and lenders alike have sought clarity regarding the permissibility of UCC foreclosure sales in the midst of the ongoing pandemic and the resulting economic fallout, as...more

Cozen O'Connor

New York Commercial Reasonability Standards in UCC Mezzanine Foreclosure Sales During COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a host of novel legal issues, and just as nature abhors a vacuum, the legal profession abhors a lack of precedent. A case in point relates to mezzanine loan foreclosure sales under...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Distressed Real Estate During COVID-19: Mezzanine Loans Behind Construction Loans—Special Considerations and Intercreditor...

Construction loans with companion mezzanine loans raise a host of concerns that are unique to more standard ICAs between a mortgage lender and a mezzanine lender. An intercreditor agreement (ICA) involving a construction...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

New York State Supreme Court Temporarily Halts UCC Foreclosure of Mezzanine Loan

On August 3, 2020, in Shelbourne BRF LLC, Shelbourne 677 LLC v. SR 677 BWAY LLC, the Supreme Court of the State of New York (the “Court”) granted the borrower plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction and prohibited the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Distressed Real Estate During COVID-19: New York State Court Order Finds UCC Foreclosures Are Not Suspended by New York E.O....

A recent court order found that a mezzanine lender may conduct a UCC foreclosure sale despite a temporary suspension of judicial foreclosures in New York State. A recent court order interpreting the scope of New York...more

Gray Reed

The Model Form JOA in Hard Times (and Farewell, Rally Possum)

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Good morning class. Welcome to an advanced course on what can go wrong with the Model Form just when you need it. FIRST CASE - Do you know where to file your UCC financing statement?...more

Troutman Pepper

Settlement Proceeds: When Does Cash Become Quasi Real Estate?

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Farmer v. Citizens Nat’l Bank of Athens (In re Davis), 528 B.R. 757 (Bankr. E.D. Tenn. 2015) – A chapter 7 trustee sought a court determination that the trustee had a superior claim to settlement proceeds arising from...more

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Florida Appellate Court Provides Guidance on Proof Required to Enforce Lost Negotiable Instruments

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As Florida works through its foreclosure backlog, many of the cases remaining are those with complications, for example a lost promissory note. Such issues are not insurmountable, but do require an attention to detail. For...more

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