The UCC Goes Digital

Read this practice note outlining and analyzing the final draft of the 2022 Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) amendments concerning digital assets and other emerging technologies. The 2022 amendments provide a long-awaited framework for lenders to gain some comfort as to how to properly perfect liens in digital assets, though the wait for these proposed revisions to be implemented will continue as each state is now tasked with evaluating and then enacting the new provisions.

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• Digital Assets: Security Interests
  Review this practice note describing how to create a security interest and perfect cryptocurrency assets in connection with a loan financing.

• Security Interests Resource Kit
  Check out this resource kit providing an overview of the creation, perfection, and priority of security interests under the UCC. This resource kit provides guidance on all facets of a security package, including procedures on perfecting various types of assets, as well as links to additional practice notes, templates, and checklists on this topic in Practical Guidance.

• Security Interests and Liens Priorities
  Read this practice discussing the requirements for the attachment and perfection of consensual security interests in personal property under Article 9 of the UCC.

• Perfection Methods in Various Types of Collateral Chart
  See this chart for the methods of perfection for various types of collateral under Article 9 of the UCC.

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