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Perfecting Lease Payment Streams

This article reviews the <i>In re Commercial Money Center</i> case and its practical implications, provides an overview of some proposed amendments to the UCC with respect to such problems, and discusses suggestions of how to protect clients in the post-<i>CMC</i> environment.

28 minute read October 30, 2007 at 11:24 AM
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Alan M. Christenfeld, Shephard W. Melzer and Debra Goldberg
Perfecting Lease Payment Streams

In August 2006, the U.S. Bankruptcy Appellate panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (the 'panel') decided In re Commercial Money Center, 2006 Bankr. LEXIS 1080, *11 (9th Cir. 2006) ('CMC').

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