General Editor: Michael L. Weissman, of Counsel, Levin Ginsburg, Chicago

Sharpen your skills with this new comprehensive handbook for bankers, bank counsel, real estate attorneys, and others involved in the lending process. Packed with insights and ideas that will have a direct impact on your practice, over 90 forms you can use in your practice with discussions of when and how to use them, and analyses of decisions affecting the lending process, with dozens of "practice pointers" that focus on current lending challenges and how to overcome them, this is the resource you can’t be without. Reinforce your knowledge and skills regarding how to prepare a commitment to lend and how to avoid an inadvertent commitment to lend. This handbook will also help you understand

• the limitations of UCC searches and potential traps in perfecting UCC security interests
• types of promissory notes
• why loan agreements contain affirmative and negative covenants
• what releases a guarantor from liability
• which third-party documents are needed to complete a document package
• how to add real estate to the collateral for a loan
• how to avoid lender liability, and how to document and deal with a borrower in distress

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 – Uniform Commercial Code Compliance
Chapter 9 – Special Collateral
Chapter 10 – Real Estate Collateral
Chapter 11 – Lender Liability Avoidance
Chapter 12 – Documentation for Distressed Borrowers

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