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Excerpt: Under Article 9 (Secured Transactions) of the Uniform Commercial Code, the default rule for priority among secured creditors is the first-to-file-or-perfect. U.C.C. § 9-322 (a)(1) (Official Text 2009). In other words, the secured party...

Although Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code has attempted to make perfection an easily attainable goal for secured parties, mistakes still occur, and many of them prove fatal to the secured creditor's perfected status. The secured party in a...

If a secured party properly perfects its security interest by filing a financing statement in the appropriate public office, it can normally be assured that it will prevail over a lien creditor (including the trustee in bankruptcy) in a fight over...

Excerpt: Under Article 9 (Secured Transactions) of the Uniform Commercial Code, the default rule for priority among secured creditors is the first-to-file-or-perfect. U.C.C. § 9-322 (a)(1) (Official Text 2009). In other words, the secured party...

LexisNexis Core Overview: Sales free of liens under 11 U.S.C.S. § 1129(b)(2)(A) [ an annotated version of this statute is available to lexis.com subscribers ] had to satisfy § 1129(b)(2)(A)(ii)'s requirements, not those of both §...

LexisNexis Overview: Because Chapter 11 debtors were proceeding to sell assets free and clear under 11 U.S.C.S. § 1129(b)(2)(A)(iii), secured lenders had no right to credit bid at the auction sale of the collateral; thus, the district court's...

LexisNexis Overview: Because Chapter 11 debtors were proceeding to sell assets free and clear under 11 U.S.C.S. § 1129(b)(2)(A)(iii), secured lenders had no right to credit bid at the auction sale of the collateral; thus, the district court's...

LexisNexis Overview: Bankruptcy court did not err in denying confirmation of Chapter 11 debtors' plans on the basis that they did not comply with the specific requirements of 11 U.S.C.S. § 1129(b)(2)(A)(ii) because debtors could not sell encumbered...

As I noted three years ago in my " What's Bothering Ruthie ? " post on Justice Ginsburg's one-liner that stopped the Chrysler sale dead in its tracks, today's Supreme Court oral argument in RadLAX Gateway Hotel, LLC v. Amalgamated...

On this edition, Ancela R. Nastasi of Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP in New York discusses the background and holding of the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in In re River Road Hotel Partners, LLC . She analyzes the implications of the court's ruling...

The Supreme Court extended the holding of Dewsnup v. Timm , 502 U.S. 410 (1992) to a fully unsecured junior lien in a chapter 7 case [lexis.com subscribers may access Supreme Court briefs and an enhanced opinion for this case]. However, the Court suggested...

In this Emerging Issues Analysis, James M. Lawniczak addresses decisions from the Third and Fifth Circuits holding that secured creditors do not have an absolute legal right to credit bid when their collateral is sold through a plan of reorganization...

A new opinion in the Scopac case raises difficult questions about adequate protection. In Matter of Scopac , No. 09-40307 (5 th Cir. 10/19/10), which can be found here, the Fifth Circuit ruled that secured creditors were entitled to a super priority...

by Ben Feder A recent ruling in the Chapter 11 case of Free Lance-Star Publishing limited the credit bidding rights of a secured creditor . The ruling has called into question the ability of the holder of secured debt to utilize such debt to acquire...

Excerpt: Under Article 9 (Secured Transactions) of the Uniform Commercial Code, the default rule for priority among secured creditors is the first-to-file-or-perfect. U.C.C. § 9-322 (a)(1) (Official Text 2009). In other words, the secured party...