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Pia Angelikis, Esq.

Pia Angelikis, Esq., is the Vice President of Government Relations and Legal Research at Cogency Global Inc. She has over 20 years of experience with premiere service companies in the UCC and corporate services industry, managing large teams of expert lawyers and paralegals conducting legal research for public filing requirements for multistate mergers, conversions and acquisitions, tracking and analyzing UCC Article 9 and business entity legislation in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and providing thought leadership. Prior to her career in the UCC and corporate services industry, Ms. Angelikis litigated for 5 years in the areas of insurance defense and employment law. She wrote the winning brief resulting in the 9th Circuit published opinion, In re Complaint of Ross Island Sand & Gravel, 226 F.3d 1015 (9th Cir. 2000). Ms. Angelikis holds a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and is licensed to practice law in California.

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Secured Parties Beware: In Florida, All Debtor Name Errors are Fatal

Three years after the Florida Supreme Court decided 1944 Beach Blvd., LLC v. Live Oak Banking Co., the Florida Secured Transaction Registry still does not utilize “standard search logic”, which means that all debtor name errors continue to be fatal, rendering a financing statement seriously misleading and ineffective regardless of whether a search under the correct debtor name would uncover the filing.

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