CMBS Transactions: The Power of Closing Checklists

When you’re managing the closing of a complex financing transaction like that of a commercial mortgage-backed security, a detail-oriented ...

Public Record Due Diligence: Judgments vs. Judgment Liens

If you are responsible for conducting public record due diligence searches, you will end up conducting UCC, state and federal tax lien, ...

Dusting Off the Ol’ UCC Brain Cells

Vacations are likely over, the Labor Day holiday weekend is a distant memory and schools are back in session. Even if school days are well ...

How Some State Tax Lien Laws are Changing

Significant Change to Where State Tax Liens are Searched in Illinois

Effective January 1, 2018, due diligence searchers need to make an addition to their search strategy for state tax liens in Illinois. As of ...

An Unintended Space Can Render a Financing Statement Seriously Misleading – At Least in Wisconsin!

Case: United States SEC v. ISC, Inc., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 139258 (W.D. Wis. Aug. 30, 2017)

Don’t Make These Mistakes on Your UCC Filings!

Even a minor error on a UCC financing statement can result in rejection. This can not only cost you time and money to correct, but it could ...

USPTO Assignments and UCC Assignments: Apples and Oranges!

I was recently asked, “Do assignment filings made with the USPTO have the same effect as assignment filings made under Article 9 of the Uniform ...

The Curious Case of Ronald Markt Nay

The Importance of Getting the Debtor Name Exactly Right on UCC Financing Statements In re: Ronald Markt Nay, Bankruptcy Case No. 16-90762, 2017 ...

New Hampshire Extends Statutory Period for Judgment Liens

A new statutory period for judgment liens? That hardly ever happens! Well, it happens occasionally, and things are indeed changing in New ...