Michigan Secured Transactions Under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code: Forms and Practice Manual

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 Secured Parties

Chapter 13A: Evaluating a Workout Situation: Issues and Options

Chapter 14: Forms

Indices