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PLI's Asset-Based Financing Strategies 2018

Webinar | 02.12.18, 4:01 AM EST - 12:00 PM EST

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During the Practising Law Institute's (PLI) Asset-Based Financing Strategies program, expert faculty will explore the most common forms of asset-based financing, and the legal rules governing them, with particular emphasis on Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code and the Bankruptcy Code. In addition, the faculty will share what they have learned in representing secured creditors and borrowers in structuring asset-based loans and in enforcing them inside and outside of bankruptcy. The faculty will also discuss some special problems in asset-based financing relating to intellectual property as well as a number of ethical issues that arise in asset-based financing.


What You Will Learn

  • Brief review of the basic rules for attachment, perfection, priority and enforcement of a security interest under Article 9
  • Common asset-based financing structures for equipment, inventory and receivables financing with emphasis on borrowing base formulations for working capital assets
  • Priority issues relating to non-UCC liens
  • Enforcement and bankruptcy planning strategies
  • Trends in debtor in possession asset-based financing
  • Issues to address where the collateral involves or relates to intellectual property
  • Cross-border asset based financing issues 

Special Features:

  • Earn one full hour of Ethics credit
  • Transitional credit available 

Credit Offered

  • CLE, CPE and CPD
Senior Counsel Scott A. Lessne will be presenting on the Receivables Financing panel at 10:45 am.

For more information, please visit these areas: Commercial Finance and Lending

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