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UCC3 Financing Amendment and Termination Statements: Avoiding Loss of Lien Perfection or Priority

A live 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Thursday, June 20, 2024

1:00pm-2:30pm EDT, 10:00am-11:30am PDT

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, May 24, 2024

or call 1-800-926-7926

This CLE course will brief counsel on the proper use of the UCC3 financing amendment and termination statements, identify potential pitfalls that can result in a lender's loss of secured interest or priority of lien, and offer best practices for secured parties to avoid unnecessary risks and costly mistakes.

Description

A Form UCC3 is used to add or change information regarding the collateral of the parties on the initial financing statement and record continuations, assignments, and terminations. These amendments are made in a proactive effort to preserve the secured party's priority position.

While seemingly straightforward, amending a UCC financing statement can be fraught with hidden risks and pitfalls that may not achieve the secured party's desired result, or worse, can jeopardize the secured party's lien or priority.

Competing creditors in bankruptcy litigation scrutinize UCC3 statements, as illustrated in some key cases where lenders have suffered losses due to inadvertent errors in a termination statement. These cases demonstrate how prevalent this scenario is and the need for lenders and their counsel to understand the risks and pitfalls surrounding these statements.

Listen as our authoritative panel of commercial finance practitioners identifies potential pitfalls in filing UCC3 financing amendment and termination statements. The panel will offer best practices for secured parties to avoid risks resulting in the loss of secured interest or lien priority.

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Outline

  1. Amendments: when are they required, when are they not necessary?
  2. Terminations: what circumstances require a secured party to file a termination statement?
  3. Continuations and assignments: what scenarios do these statements cover?
  4. Common pitfalls and correcting mistakes in UCC3 financing statements

Benefits

The panel will review these and other relevant issues:

  • When are amendments to UCC financing statements required, and when are they not necessary?
  • What circumstances require a secured lender to file a termination statement?
  • What are the most common pitfalls in filing UCC3 financing statements, and how and when can lenders correct mistakes?

Faculty

Grodner, R. Marshall
R. Marshall Grodner

Member
McGlinchey Stafford

Mr. Grodner's practice focuses primarily on commercial transactions, secured transactions, commercial finance,...  |  Read More

Hodnefield, Paul
Paul Hodnefield

Associate General Counsel
Corporation Service Company

Mr. Hodnefield is a frequent speaker on Revised Article 9 search and filing issues who has written several articles and...  |  Read More

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