The Ninth Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate panel recently reaffirmed the longstanding principle that a UCC-1 financing statement securing personal property must be filed at the debtor’s location. In a recent case, the lender did...more
5/23/2025
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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
2/24/2020
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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
10/1/2019
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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