The sophisticated guidance in this handbook for bankers, bank counsel, real estate attorneys, and others involved in the lending process is the product of the author’s many years of documenting, administering, and enforcing loan documentation.
This comprehensive guide for bankers, bank counsel, real estate attorneys, and others involved in lending is full of insights and ideas that will have a direct impact on your practice. With over 90 editable forms, analyses of decisions affecting the lending process, and dozens of practice pointers that focus on dealing with current lending challenges, this is the commercial banking resource you can’t be without. Among the topics covered are commitments to lend and avoiding inadvertent commitments to lend, limitations of UCC searches, types of promissory notes, affirmative and negative covenants in loan agreements, guarantors’ releases from liability, third-party documents needed to complete a document package, potential traps in perfecting UCC security interests, adding real estate to loan collateral, exposure to and avoidance of lender liability, and documenting and dealing with a borrower in distress.
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL LOAN DOCUMENTATION
2018 Edition
Michael L. Weissman, Of Counsel
Levin Ginsburg, Chicago
Chapter 1 — Beginning the Commercial and Industrial Lending Process
Chapter 2 — Commitments To Lend and Preliminary Due Diligence
Chapter 3 — Borrowing Entities
Chapter 4 — Promissory Notes
Chapter 5 — Loan Agreements
Chapter 6 — Guaranties
Chapter 7 — Third-Party Documents
Chapter 8 — Third-Party Documents
Chapter 9 — Special Collateral
Chapter 10 — Real Estate Collateral
Chapter 11 — Lender Liability Exposure and Avoidance
Chapter 12 — Documentation for Distressed Borrowers
