In 2010, the Uniform Law Commission promulgated several amendments (Amendments) to Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (Article 9) designed to address problems that have arisen since revised Article 9 went into effect in 2001. Most, but not all, of the Amendments address the proper way to reflect debtor names on financing statements.
Timing and Enactment
The Colorado LLC Act prohibits an insolvent LLC from making a distribution to a member. Insolvency is defined as the LLC’s liabilities exceeding its assets, with minor exceptions. Colo. Rev. Stat. § 7-80-606. The Act also mandates that a member who receives a distribution and who knows at the time that the LLC is insolvent is personally liable to the LLC for the amount of the distribution. Id.
If you are, or have interest in becoming, a director of any organization, you should heed the May 17, 2013, decision in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in Official Comm. Of Unsecured Creditors ex rel. Lemington Home for the Aged, (the Lemington Home Case). The Lemington Home Case upheld a jury’s award to the plaintiff creditors’ committee of
You might think that a company in bankruptcy wouldn’t be able to give its CEO a multi-million-dollar severance payment.
But just because a company is in bankruptcy doesn’t necessarily mean it doesn’t have any money – it just means it doesn’t have enough to pay all of its debts, or to function as a continuing concern. The company may, in fact, have the means to make a rather generous severance payment – like the $20 million American Airlines is proposing to pay its CEO, Tom Horton, as the airline comes out of Chapter 11 and into a merger with US Airways.
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy many businesses have been negatively impacted financially throughout regions from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware. Hardest hit are businesses located not only along the New Jersey, Staten Island and Long Island NY coasts but in areas that have never experienced such a devastating disaster. Areas such as Hoboken NJ,lower Manhattan and the NYC East Side. Even businesses located in inland communit
In Greb v. Diamond Int’l Corp., 2013 WL 628328 (Cal. Feb. 21, 2013), the California Supreme Court unequivocally and unanimously laid to rest the assertion that dissolved foreign corporations may be sued in California after the time of the statute of limitations provided by the laws under which the foreign corporations were incorporated.
Key Considerations When Determining Whether to Resign from a Board in Advance of a Bankruptcy Filing
If a loan or extension of credit requires collateral, banks prefer collateral that is readily marketable rather than taking a security interest in a closely-held business. Occasionally, the only collateral that is available or that the borrower can offer is corporate stock that is not traded on a public market, an interest in a limited liability company ("LLC") or a partnership interest. 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.
After putting all of the specific deal points into a new contract, you are just about finished. All you have to do now is add in the “Miscellaneous” section with all of your boilerplate provisions like force majeure, choice of law and a few others. You have drafted so many contracts for so many years that you do not even know where some of the
Disgruntled debtors seeking to evade their obligations by filing fraudulent liens soon face new threats under Illinois law. On July 25, 2012, Governor Patrick Quinn approved and signed Senate Bill 1692, which is intended to provide additional remedies for wrongfully filed UCC liens.5 Senate Bill 1692 becomes effective January 1, 2013 and will be incorporated into section nine of the Illinois Uniform Commercial Code.