Tolstoy warned that “if you look for perfection, you’ll never be content”, but Tolstoy wasn’t a bankruptcy lawyer. In the world of secured lending, perfection is paramount. A secured lender that has ...

Ring v. First Niagara Bank, N.A. (In re Sterling United, Inc.), 519 B.R. 586 (Bankr. W.D.N.Y. 2014) – A chapter 7 trustee sought to recover as preferences payments made by the debtor to a lender and ...

In her Secured Transactions column, Barbara M. Goodstein discusses a recent Seventh Circuit decision in which the court reversed the lower court and held that a UCC-1 collateral description with ...

Collateral offers lenders a degree of security in the event a borrower cannot fulfill the terms of a loan agreement. So, what is collateral? Any asset owned by a borrower that can be pledged to help a ...

Blanket or “all assets” security interests are among the most common, if not the most common, type of lien required of borrowers by secured lenders in commercial transactions. Describing the ...

Charlene Rhinehart is a CPA , CFE, chair of an Illinois CPA Society committee, and has a degree in accounting and finance from DePaul University. Jared Ecker is a researcher and fact-checker. He ...