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Enemy of a Lender: Ambiguity in Loan Documents

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Loan document terms are ambiguous when they are reasonably capable of being interpreted in more than one manner. Contract law often provides that an ambiguous term in a loan document is interpreted against the drafting party....more

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP

The Cost of An Early Payday: Lessons from Tatis Jr.'s Advance Financing Agreement

In professional sports, financial windfalls often come after years of uncertainty and risk. Fernando Tatis Jr., the San Diego Padres right fielder, provides a striking example. Early in his minor league career, he accepted a...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

VietJet v FW Aviation: Latest Developments

In the context of security assignments, the judgment again emphasises the distinction between day-one assigned rights, on the one hand, and other rights and remedies exercisable only following an enforcement event, on the...more

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Privy Council clarifies secured party’s duty when realising security

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The Privy Council has clarified that the duty of care to "obtain the best price reasonably obtainable" in the sale of secured collateral does not require a secured party to improve an asset before sale to obtain the best...more

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The Economic Loss Doctrine: A Valuable Shield for Lenders

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Sometimes, they may even accuse you of causing them harm through negligence, breach of contract, or even breach of fiduciary duty. While the typical borrower-lender relationship doesn't create a fiduciary duty, certain...more

Mayer Brown

Serta and Mitel: The Latest Major Court Decisions on Uptier Transactions

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Summary: On December 31, 2024, two major appellate court decisions addressed the legality of uptier financing transactions—one involving Serta Simmons Bedding (“Serta”) and the other Mitel Networks Corporation (“Mitel”). Both...more

BCLP

Third Party Rights - Welcome Guidance from the High Court

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There is a “a dearth of case law” on s1(1) of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 (Act), as observed by Lenon KC, the judge in the case of HNW Lending Ltd v Lawrence [2025] EWHC 908 (Ch). Whilst an accurate...more

King & Spalding

S.D.N.Y. Reiterates that the Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing May Not Create Obligations Inconsistent with Parties’...

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On March 25, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion to dismiss a lender’s claims for declaratory judgment and other relief under an intercreditor agreement (“ICA”), rejecting the...more

Shipman & Goodwin LLP

A Borrower Defaulted: Now What? Your Critical First Steps

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When a borrower defaults under a loan agreement, you face a dual challenge: time pressure demands swift action, while legal complexities require precision. Whether confronting missed payments, breached financial covenants, or...more

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What legal actions can the bank take if the customer defaults on a loan in the UAE?

Defaulting on a bank loan in the UAE is regulated by the Commercial Code (federal decree-law No. (50) of 2022) and the Civil Procedure Law (federal decree-law No. (42) of 2022). Further, the Central Bank of UAE issued Loan...more

Mayer Brown

Understanding How ‘Course of Performance’ Principles Impact Financings

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - When contract language is ambiguous and the court is tasked with finding the intended meaning, interpretation principles – such as “course of performance” – may be used. But did you know this principle...more

Stark & Stark

A Day Late and a Dollar Short: A Mortgagee’s Obligations and Best Practices Upon Receipt of Short Loan Payoff Funds

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In the ever-evolving world of mortgage lending, a scenario often arises where a borrower refinances their existing mortgage with a new lender, but the payoff funds tendered by the new lender are less than the full amount...more

Jones Day

Fifth Circuit Rules that Serta Simmons Uptier Violated Credit Agreement, Rejects Equitable Mootness as Bar to Review of Chapter 11...

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In In re Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC, 125 F.4th 555 (5th Cir. 2024), as amended, No. 23-20281 (5th Cir. Jan. 21, 2025), revised and superseded, No. 23-20181 (5th Cir. Feb. 14, 2025), reh'g denied, No. 23-20181 (5th Cir. Feb....more

A&O Shearman

Good faith in secured finance?

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The court implied a good faith term constraining a lender’s discretion to refuse a borrower's request to dispose of assets in a secured financing context. A power to consider requests for disposals - A facility agreement...more

Mayer Brown

Subscription Credit Facilities: The Importance of an Investor’s Agreement to Fund Without “Setoff, Counterclaim or Defense”

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - Subscription credit facilities rely on the obligations of investors to a private investment fund (“Fund”) to contribute their capital commitments to the Fund when called. From a subscription credit...more

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Court Finds Failure To Obtain Finance Lenders' License Does Not Render Commercial Loan Unenforceable, Illegal Contracts

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The California Financing Law provides that “[n]o person shall engage in the business of a finance lender or broker without obtaining a license from the commissioner.”   Cal. Fin. Code § 22100(a).  The CFL further provides...more

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Fifth Circuit Rules that Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC’s 2020 Uptier Transaction Violated Pro Rata Distribution Covenant

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In a landmark ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that a June 2020 refinancing transaction (the Uptier Transaction) entered by Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC (SSB, or the Debtor) and certain of its lenders...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Serta - Fifth Circuit Decision

On December 31, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued its long-awaited decision regarding the permissibility of the Serta Simmons Bedding (Serta) uptier liability management exercise (the 2020 Uptier)...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Latest Uptier Decisions in Serta and Mitel Remind Contract Language Matters

The caselaw on “uptiers” as liability management exercises (LMEs) grew by two opinions on the last day of 2024. In Serta, the Fifth Circuit reversed the bankruptcy court’s blessing of the pre-bankruptcy uptier and...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

San Francisco Fed sues PPP lender and principals

On July 11, the San Francisco Fed filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico, against a Puerto Rico-based PPP lender and its two principals for allegedly defaulting on the terms of loans....more

Stark & Stark

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

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

High Court Ruled That Lender Suffered No Loss Despite Negligent Valuation of Security

On 27 September 2023, the British High Court ruled that the claimant relying on the defendant’s report suffered no actionable loss, despite the defendant’s admission of negligence. ...more

Goodwin

Breach of Contract and Implied Covenant of Good Faith Claims Survive Motion to Dismiss in Boardriders Uptier Exchange Dispute

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​​​​​​​Lenders seeking to challenge controversial, often punitive, liability management transactions scored a recent win in Boardriders. The transaction at issue, a priming uptier exchange transaction favoring certain...more

Moritt Hock & Hamroff LLP

Aggressive Pursuit Of Repayment Or Crossing The Line? Takeaways From The Bailey Tool Bankruptcy Case

A lender’s successful enforcement of loan documents following one or more events of default turns on a variety of factors, the most important of which is compliance with the terms of the relevant loan documents. When a lender...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

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