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  1. Assignments and Security Interests Under UCC Article 9: A Worthy

    The basic definitions of Article 9 align with this approach of applying to both an assignment of payment rights and a security interest in such assets. " [S]ecurity interest" in UCC Article 1 ...

  2. How to Attach and Perfect a Security Interest Under the UCC

    Attachment of a security interest. Under the UCC, in order for a creditor to become a secured party—that is, a party with a legal right to take possession of the collateral if the debtor fails to pay—the creditor must take special steps (discussed below). These steps are known as "attachment of a security interest." Perfecting a security ...

  3. § 9-514. Assignment of Powers of Secured Party of Record

    An assignment of record of a security interest in a fixture covered by a record of a mortgage which is effective as a financing statement filed as a fixture filing under Section 9-502(c) may be made only by an assignment of record of the mortgage in the manner provided by law of this State other than [the Uniform Commercial Code].

  4. Assignment Of Rents

    An Assignment of Rents ("AOR") is used to grant the lender on a transaction a security interest in existing and future leases, rents, issues, or profits generated by the secured property, including cash proceeds, in the event a borrower defaults on their loan. The lender can use the AOR to step in and directly collect rental payments made ...

  5. PDF The Assignee of an Article 9 Security Interest: Two Sets of Drafting

    (ii) if the security interest is perfected by filing, the assignee can, but does not have to, become the secured party of record by having the fact of the assignment made part of the financing statement;3 (iii) whether or not the assignee of a security interest becomes the secured party of record, the assignee has become the secured party.4

  6. What Is Security Interest? Definition and Legal Requirements

    Security Interest: A legal claim on collateral that has been pledged, usually to obtain a loan. The borrower provides the lender with a security interest in certain assets that can be repossessed ...

  7. PDF Basics of Creation and Perfection of Security Interests Under Article 9

    Generally. There are at least four methods of perfecting security interests in. assets under the Code: (1) filing financing statements; (2) by possession; (3) by control; and (4) by other methods under state and federal law, which involves the filing of certificates of title or. other legal compliance (e.g., motor vehicles, airplane and boats).

  8. Security Interest in Assignment of Accounts Receivable or Contract

    How is a security interest created through the assignment of accounts receivable and contract rights? Generally, the sale or assignment of rights in accounts, payment intangibles, or promissory notes (account) creates a security interest for the individual to whom the account is assigned. This attaches the security interest to the account.

  9. Protecting Your Security Interest In An LLC Membership Interest

    Perfecting a security interest protects your rights in the collateral and determines your priority in relation to other creditors. ... the borrower will also give you an assignment of the membership interest so that you can transfer title if there is a default on the loan. Note: You can also perfect by filing a UCC-1 financing statement ...

  10. Security in finance transactions

    The term 'charge' is often used as a generic term for all types of security interest, but specifically it represents an agreement between a creditor and a debtor in which a particular asset or class of assets can be used to satisfy a debt. ... Assignment by way of security. A borrower's rights against third parties, such as the right to receive ...

  11. PDF Security Interests in Proceeds of Collateral

    security interest. The secured party benefits from the anti‐assignment override even though it cannot enforce its security interest because it attaches to the collateral and, if properly perfected, the secured party will have a perfected security interest in the proceeds of a sale of the

  12. Letters of Credit Under Revised UCC Article 9

    This is defined in the 1998 amendment as "a secondary obligation or letter-of-credit right that supports the payment or performance of an account, chattel paper, general intangible, document, healthcare insurance receivable, instrument, or investment property.''. The general principle under revised Article 9 is that a security interest in an ...

  13. § 9-309. Security Interest Perfected Upon Attachment

    The following security interests are perfected when they attach: (1) a purchase-money security interest in consumer goods, except as otherwise provided in Section 9-311(b) with respect to consumer goods that are subject to a statute or treaty described in Section 9-311(a); (2) an assignment of accounts or payment intangibles which does not by itself or in conjunction with other assignments to ...

  14. To assign or not to assign that's a real question

    There are two types of assignment: legal and equitable. Legal assignments by way of security involve a transfer of legal ownership, with a proviso for re-assignment on satisfaction of the secured liabilities. A legal assignment is only possible in relation to assets which already exist (this excludes future assets). A sum becoming due

  15. Assignment of Accounts Receivable: Meaning, Considerations

    Assignment of accounts receivable is a lending agreement, often long term , between a borrowing company and a lending institution whereby the borrower assigns specific customer accounts that owe ...

  16. Assignment of Interest In LLC: Everything You Need to Know

    A member may choose to assign interest for a number of reasons. The assignment of interest may happen as collateral to a loan to one of the members. Some members can assign interest to settle debts. The assignment will be effective until the debt is cleared. An assignment of interest can also' be done to a member's legal heirs, going into ...

  17. PDF What Is a Ban on Assignment? the Business Contract Terms (Assignment of

    an absolute assignment, with no equity of redemption, over receivables such that there is an outright disposal of the receivable from the seller to the financier; and • in the case of secured borrowing base (BB) facilities, take security (typically an absolute assignment by way of security) over the receivables.

  18. Assignment of Security Interest Definition

    Examples of Assignment of Security Interest in a sentence. The recordation of the Assignment of Security Interest in U.S. Patents and Trademarks in the form attached to the Security Agreement in the United States Patent and Trademark Office together with filings on Form UCC-1 made pursuant to the Security Agreement will be effective, under applicable law, to perfect the security interest ...

  19. Granting or Recording a Security Interest in a Patent at the ...

    A party receiving a security interest in a patent may record the security agreement with the USPTO to protect itself against and give notice to subsequent bona fide purchasers or mortgagees. Standard security agreements that do not include language assigning title of the patents, however, will not prevent a patentee from bringing a patent ...

  20. Taking a security interest in a closely held business

    It is common for closely-held business entities to prohibit an assignment of an owner's interest or require as a condition to an assignment the consent of the other owners of the entity. This ...

  21. Acceptance, Assignment, & Enforcement of a Security Interest in the

    - Security Interest (what it is, how it is obtained, and the methods used to secure ones interest in property) - Perfected claim against any prior holder of any goods received on behalf of the owner. - UCC in order secure the security interest *This is a 3 hour class; everyone will remain muted until the Q&A segment at the end*

  22. Assignment of security interest clause samples

    SECTION 5.04. Assignment of Security Interest. If at any time any Grantor shall take a security interest in any property of an Account Debtor or any other Person to secure payment and performance of an Account in an amount in excess of $250,000, such Grantor shall promptly assign such security interest to the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

  23. Security assignments

    Lenders commonly take security over "choses in action" (such as debts or rights under contracts) by way of assignment. An assignment involves the transfer of either legal ownership (legal ...

  24. What Is an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors and How Does It

    An assignment for the benefit of creditors (ABC) is a process by which a financially distressed company (referred to as the assignor) transfers its assets to a third-party fiduciary (referred to ...