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Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Security Agreements

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Looking for Liquidity in Foreign Places: A Lender’s Guide to Financing Goods Located Outside the US Part I

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Part I: Whose Law is it Anyway? With elevated interest rates and rising labor and supply costs, many U.S. companies are looking for additional sources of capital to continue growing their businesses. Companies with...more

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Going Green - February 2022 - Further Developments in Mezzanine Foreclosures

The New York State Supreme Court, County of New York (the “Court”) decided in Atlas Brookview Mezzanine LLC v. DB Brookview LLC, on November 18, 2021, that an accommodation pledge entered into in connection with a mortgage...more

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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

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Ten Things Every Fund Finance Banker Should Know About the UCC

The initiative to draft a code that would unify commercial transactions across U.S. states came about in 1942. The drafters went to work in a remarkable setting that, aside from a global war, was marked by clashes of...more

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Lender Beware: Two Recent Bankruptcy Cases Highlight Importance of Diligence in UCC-1 Filings

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Lenders should view as cautionary tales two recently handed down decisions regarding UCC-1 financing statements and the perfection of security interests. On December 20, 2019, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of...more

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Bankruptcy trustee appeals Seventh Circuit’s ruling on sufficiency of UCC collateral description to US Supreme Court

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Last October we highlighted an important ruling issued in September 2019 by the Seventh Circuit in the bankruptcy proceeding of In re I80 Equipment, LLC. The Circuit Court in that case reversed a decision from the lower...more

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Financing Statement Collateral Descriptions that Indicate Collateral by Reference Are Permissible under Article 9 of the UCC

Recently in In Re: 180 Equipment, LLC, a case of first impression, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit determined that the Illinois version of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (Illinois UCC)...more

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A Win for Lenders: Seventh Circuit Finds UCC-1 Collateral Description Reference Sufficient

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In a win for lenders, on September 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Illinois, holding that the collateral description in the UCC-1 financing...more

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Ambiguous UCC Collateral Descriptions Part II: Another Snare for Private Equity Companies

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On August 20, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of Illinois in In re I80 Equipment, LLC, No.17-81749, 2018 WL 4006294 (Bankr. C.D. Ill. Aug. 20, 2018) held that a secured party failed to perfect its security...more

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Security Agreement: When Drafting You Better Say What You Mean

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State Bank of Toulon v. Covey (In re Duckworth), 776 F.3d 453 (7th Cir. 2014) – A chapter 7 trustee sought to treat a secured lender as unsecured based on an error in the security agreement. The lender argued that the...more

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