Michigan Secured Transactions Under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code: Forms and Practice Manual
Prominent Michigan attorneys, Thomas E. Coughlin and Jane Derse Quasarano, have drawn from their extensive experience to bring you this practical, easy-to-use book, containing a comprehensive collection of all the current rules of Revised Article 9, along with extensive commentaries on how they affect the forms and procedures used in Michigan today.
Recent Updates Include:
- New Form (14-89) – Individual Person Debtor-Name Certificate
- New Form (14-90) – Methods of Perfection/Intellectual Property
- New Form (14-91) – Patent Collateral Assignment and Security Agreement
- New Form (14-92) – Trademark Collateral Assignment and Security Agreement
- New Form (14-93) – Copyright Collateral Assignment and Security Agreement
- Updated case law throughout
- All of the forms in the Manual conveniently provided on the accompanying CD for your immediate use.
Thomas E. Coughlin is a partner in the Financial Services and Business Transactions Practice Groups of Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, PC. His practice focuses on most aspects of commercial lending and creditors’ rights. He has represented Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 debtors, Chapter 7 and Chapter 11 Trustees, and Creditors’ Committees. He has represented numerous lending institutions, lessors and general creditors in and out of bankruptcy cases. He has also represented numerous lending institutions and businesses with respect to loan originations and workouts, including claim and delivery actions, surrender agreements, forbearance agreements, assignments for the benefit of creditors and composition agreements. He also specializes in real and personal property foreclosures. He is an adjunct professor at Wayne State University Law School, having taught the Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights course. He also developed and taught the Advanced Chapter 11 course for Wayne State University Law School. He has given seminars to several lending institutions and large corporations on collection practices and bankruptcy issues, and has written on landlord and commercial transaction issues. He is a member of the Commercial Law League, the Detroit Bar Association Creditors’ Rights Section, the Michigan Bar Association and the Federal Bar for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Jane Derse Quasarano is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group of Bodman PLC, specializing in commercial litigation, creditors’ rights and bankruptcy. Jane was an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit-Mercy Law School and Wayne State University Law School having taught Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights and Legal Writing. She has given seminars relating to creditors’ rights and bankruptcy to lending institutions and on behalf of the National Business Institute. In 1991 she received her law degree cum laude from Wayne State University Law School, where she was Editor In Chief of the Wayne Law Review. She is a member of the Michigan State Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
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SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Transition and Applicable Law
Chapter 2: Overview and Definitions
Chapter 3: Creating a Security Interest—Attachment—Making the Secured Party's Rights Enforceable Against the Debtor
Chapter 4: Perfection
Chapter 5: Financing Statement Mechanics
Chapter 6: Prevailing Against Others
Chapter 7: Particular Types of Collateral
Chapter 8: Proceeds
Chapter 9: Changes After Closing
Chapter 10: Third Parties—Account Debtors
Chapter 11: Enforcement
Chapter 12: Secured Party's Obligations
Chapter 13: Penalties Against Third Parties
Chapter 13A: Evaluating a Workout Situation: Issues and Options
Chapter 14: Forms
Indices