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Delayed Perfection Of Security Interests In Personal Property And The Substantially Contemporaneous Exchange Exception To Preference Attack, Richard F. Duncan
Delayed Perfection Of Security Interests In Personal Property And The Substantially Contemporaneous Exchange Exception To Preference Attack, Richard F. Duncan
Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications
The Bankruptcy Reform Act's treatment of belatedly perfected security interests in personal property is enigmatic, because it attempts to employ preference law to avoid a class of transfers, socalled "secret liens," that are not true preferences. When a security interest is granted in exchange for contemporaneous value, preference policy in bankruptcy is not offended, because the transaction does not cause a depletion of the debtor's estate for the benefit of a particular creditor. However, the effect the timing rules of section 547(e) of the New Act is to treat most security interests perfected during the preference period and more than …