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Additional Provisions That Should be Contained in the Control Agreement

UCC, Reduce Financial Risk

You've made it to the final blog post in our series on control agreements for pledged securities accounts, written by attorney Bennett Cohen of Cohen, Salk & Huvard P.C. For more information about his law firm, please see the website here. This blog post series is informational in nature and is not intended to constitute, nor should it be relied upon as, legal advice to any recipient. Additional Provisions That Should be Contained…READ MORE


Has the Broker subordinated its statutory first priority security interest in the Securities Account to the Lender’s security interest in the Securities Account?

UCC, Due Diligence, Revised Article 9

We're continuing our examination of control agreements for pledged securities accounts with guest blogger Bennett Cohen of the law firm Cohen, Salk & Huvard, P.C. See the introductory post here and the follow-up post, Is there adequate “control” language in the control agreement? Has the Broker subordinated its statutory first priority security interest in the Securities Account to the Lender's security interest in the Securities…READ MORE