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Seventh Circuit Guidance on Collateral Description in Financing Statements

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In a previous blogpost, we explained the technical requirements for financing statements and the potential risks of failing to satisfy them, highlighting a case where the court ruled, under a prior version of the Puerto Rico...more

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Revisiting Financing Statement Collateral Descriptions

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Recently, two federal courts issued decisions defining the detail needed in collateral descriptions in financing statements. This is significant because if the collateral description is not sufficient then the financing...more

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Puerto Rico Case Highlights Need for Secured Parties to Adhere to Good Practices in Documenting Secured Transactions

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Manufacturers encounter financing statements in many contexts – as a borrower, as a supplier of goods sold on credit, as a seller in a leveraged acquisition, as a seller of equipment where financing is provided to the buyer...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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