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
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
A recent court decision in New York found that current market conditions in the real estate market justify delaying noticing mezzanine real estate foreclosures until October 15, 2020. A recent New York Supreme Court Order...more
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
New York courts have become a battleground for challenges to foreclosure sales under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Another trial court of the New York State Supreme Court (New York County)...more