The Plaintiff sought a ruling that the sale of equity interests in eleven commercial properties, which interests were pledged as collateral for a mezzanine loan, was commercially unreasonable because the auction sale was not conducted in a commercially ...

Plaintiff, the sole trustee of a trust which owned a cooperative unit, commenced an Action for a declaration that a Uniform Commercial Code Financing Statement filed against the unit as security for a loan to the Plaintiff, personally and in his capacity ...

New York State remains the only state still using UCC forms dated 2001. While it may appear to be embarrassing as the “financial center of the world”, there are actually some benefits of these old forms over the new forms being used by every other state.

In 2001 a major revision of Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code was highlighted by the requirement that the secured party get the name of the debtor “correct”. Without the correct name, the filing could be deemed “seriously misleading” and ...

In 2010 a series of amendments were proposed for Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Knowing it would take time for the individual state legislatures to pass these changes, a goal was set for the amendments to be enacted on July 1st, 2013. Forty ...