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A Truly Bingeworthy Series July 2024 - Some Key Considerations When Lending to a Master-Series Fund

Master-series funds are definitely not on our desks on a daily basis; however, they do arise from time to time, and certainly as transactions are becoming more and more bespoke. Care should be taken by lenders when lending to...more

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Pennsylvania Joins the Digital Age and Enacts Article 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code

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On July 1, 2024, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania joined twenty-three other states in adopting Uniform Commercial Code Article 12 and the accompanying amendments to the Pennsylvania Uniform Commercial Code....more

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

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Part II: Ticket to Ride- 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 asset-based...more

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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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A New Age of PerFFFection June 2024 - Potential Impact of UCC Article 12 on Fund Finance Transactions

At the bottom of the stack in investment fund structures, there are generally “real” assets—things like equity interests in portfolio companies, mortgage loans, commercial receivables, maybe even bricks and mortar. Fund...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

TriBar Releases Report on Digital Asset Opinions under UCC Article 12

The official drafting committees of the Uniform Commercial Code have promulgated proposed amendments (the “2022 Amendments”) to address transactions with certain digital assets, notably adding a new Article 12 on Controllable...more

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Taking Security in Africa: A Comparative Guide for Investors - May 2024

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This guide provides an overview of the types of assets over which security can be taken, the different types of security, as well as the related procedures for the perfection and enforcement of such security in Africa....more

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In the UCC We Trust May 2024 - It Looks Like We Have Trust Issues

One of the most important aspects in arranging any fund finance transaction is structuring the security package. As anyone that has ever looked at a complete structure chart for a fund financing transaction knows, even a...more

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Can I Enhance My Prospects for Payment Through a Purchase Money Security Interest? - Creditor’s Rights Toolkit

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A seller of goods may gain priority over other creditors, and enhanced prospects for payment, by taking and perfecting a purchase money security interest (PMSI) in the goods sold to a customer. This article will explain what...more

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UK Financial Regulator Confirms Plan to Combat Greenwashing

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Last week, the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority issued guidance on its proposed anti-greenwashing rule, which will come into effect at the end of May 2024. (Greenwashing is when a product, service, or firm is...more

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Commercial Foreclosures in Pennsylvania: How Deal Formation Impacts Litigation

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The fact that commercial transactions can very easily become complex is not a novel statement. When financial institutions lend money to commercial entities, the basic documentation required to evidence the loan, promise to...more

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Financing the Middleman: Traps for the Unwary When Financing an Intermediary Business

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Lenders relying on a security interest in the accounts receivable of borrowers need to use caution when financing an intermediary business that could be subject to express or constructive trusts. If an intermediary business...more

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Possessing the Unpossessable – Holding Digital Assets in Your UCC Hands

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Non-fungible tokens, crypto tokens, cryptocurrencies, and other digital assets generally cannot be held in your physical hands, but they may now be legally possessed, under the Uniform Commercial Code in Delaware and other...more

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Did You Lose Your Security Interest in That Collateral? The New Way to Perfect Security Interests Using Updated UCC Forms

Beginning July 1, 2023, many states began accepting revised Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) forms to perfect security interests. These revised forms were adopted earlier this year by the International Association of Commercial...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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Code Update: Get Ready March 2023 | Issue No. 214 - New UCC Article 12 Matters to More than Just Cryptocurrency

After being approved by its drafting committees last summer, a new article to the Uniform Commercial Code is now making its way through state legislatures for enactment. Because the new Article 12 and its related code...more

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Mortgage Recording Tax on Mezzanine Debt, Preferred Equity Again Proposed in N.Y. Senate

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Legislation to impose a tax on the creation of mezzanine debt and preferred equity was reintroduced on Jan. 4, 2023, in the last two sessions of the New York state legislature, by the same state senators who proposed it...more

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New 6th Circuit opinion puts the brakes on expedited tax foreclosures by county land banks

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​​​​​​​You knew the wheels were falling off the (medieval) cart when the federal 6th Circuit Court of Appeals rattled off English legal theory from the year 1470, right?   Advocates for county land banking activities in...more

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Is My Contract Void? - McGlinchey Commercial Law Bulletin - October 11, 2022

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Ohio- Implied Warranty Banks v. Shark Auto Sales LLC, 11th Dist. Trumbull, No. 2022-Ohio-3489- In this appeal, the Eleventh Appellate District reversed the trial court’s judgment in favor of the plaintiff on her vehicle...more

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The UCC Gets a Digital Asset Refresh

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A new Article 12 and amendments to Article 9 regarding “controllable electronic records” would govern transactions and security interests in digital assets. On July 13, 2022, the Uniform Law Commission (in partnership...more

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Taking Security Interests in Human Reproductive Tissue: Clarifying Lender Options under Federal and State Law

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Can human reproductive tissue (“HRT”) held by a fertility clinic serve as collateral for a loan to (or investment in) the fertility clinic? In short, the scope and extent of governmental regulation addressing the sale of or...more

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Michigan Adopts Its Version of the Uniform Assignment of Rents Act

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In May 2017, we highlighted the Sixth Circuit’s opinion in Town Center Flats. Briefly, Town Center Flats held that ownership of a commercial property’s rents transferred to a lender when (1) a commercial loan is secured by a...more

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SEC Mandates Electronic Filing for Form 144 and Certain Other Filings

The SEC’s amendments mandate electronic filing of Form 144 and certain other documents, providing investors with more immediate access to information. Individuals who wish to sell restricted securities that will require...more

Stikeman Elliott LLP

The Manitok Energy Decision: Builders’ Lien Priority Rights Could Be Lost When Lands Are Subject to AER Abandonment Liability

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A recent appellate decision from Alberta, Manitok Energy Inc. (Re), marks another chapter in the developing caselaw surrounding environmental obligations in insolvency proceedings. In the decision, the Alberta Court of Appeal...more

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In Depth: A Perfection Problem with a Hidden Solution

Most U.S. lenders are familiar with the need to file a Uniform Commercial Code financing statement to perfect a security interest in collateral. Most lenders are also aware that financing statements must be updated if the...more

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