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Under FAPA: Dismissal of Prior Foreclosure for Lack of Standing Does Not Estop Lender

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On July 31, 2024, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division: Second Department affirmed the dismissal of a quiet title action, which sought to discharge a mortgage as time-barred under the Foreclosure Abuse Prevention...more

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New York County Supreme Court Upholds Accommodation Pledges

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In recent years, the claim that an accommodation pledge attached to a mortgage loan effectively “clogs” a borrower’s right of redemption has been the basis of numerous civil actions in New York courts. With the case of Atlas...more

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Decision by New York's Highest Court Results in Account Debtor Owing Its Counterparty's Debts

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In Worthy Lending LLC v. New Style Contractors. Inc., New York’s highest court, the New York Court of Appeals, has ruled that a security interest includes a lender’s right to force the borrower’s account debtors to remit...more

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Liability Management – Vaccine or Pandemic? Private Credit Restructuring Year in Review

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Once again, we reflect on the prior year for restructuring trends impacting private credit lenders. Last year it was all about “liability management”—the latest trend in which the limits of sponsor-favorable loan documents...more

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Boardriders: Minority Lenders Win Round One

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A common yet contentious liability management strategy is an “uptier” transaction, where lenders holding a majority of loans or notes under a financing agreement seek to elevate or “roll-up” the priority of their debt above...more

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Boardriders Minority Lenders Notch Initial Victory Challenging Uptier Transactions

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On October 17, 2022, Justice Andrea Masley of the NY Supreme Court issued a decision and order denying all but one of the motion to dismiss claims filed by Boardriders, Oaktree Capital (an equity holder, term lender, and...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Further Developments in Mezzanine Foreclosures

The New York State Supreme Court, New York County Commercial Division (the “Court”) decided in U.S. Bank, N.A. v. 342 Property LLC, on February 14, 2022, that a mezzanine lender that is not a party to loan documents that...more

Alston & Bird

TriMark: Are “Sacred Rights” Still Sacrosanct?

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A recent decision by the Supreme Court of New York suggests that current lender-on-lender violence through majority uptiering and covenant-stripping may not be without a remedy. Our Financial Restructuring & Reorganization...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Crossroads

New York Court Finds an Action is Timely in Some Circumstances in CPLR 205(a) Decision

The Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court's First Department recently issued a decision addressing the calculation of the six-month timeframe permitted to file a new action, according to New York's Civil Practice...more

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

New York Appellate Court Puts Huge Road Block In Way Of Borrowers Seeking To Enjoin UCC Article 9 Sales

Over the last year, since the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have continued to report on how the courts have handled efforts by lenders to address pandemic-related defaults, including by means of Uniform Commercial...more

White and Williams LLP

Mortgage and Pledge of Equity — Clogging the Equity of Redemption?

A recent decision by the Supreme Court of New York, New York County, addressed the issue of whether the borrower's equity of redemption was being impermissibly "clogged" by a foreclosing lender. The case, HH Cincinnati...more

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New York Case Is a Win for the Merchant Cash Advance Industry

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Providers of cash advances repaid by sales of future receivables in New York can have greater confidence that these advances are not loans and are not subject to usury laws. On March 16, the Supreme Court of New York,...more

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