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Equipment Rentals in Bankruptcy: Allocation Issues Arising from Post-Petition Payments

By Dennis Dressler
July 02, 2013

Courts frequently wrestle with how to apply post-petition payments for rental proceeds deriving from lenders' pre-petition collateral. The issue arises principally in single asset real estate cases, because generally post-petition proceeds of the debtor are the rents attributable to the lender's collateral.

The issue is not solely the province of single asset real estate cases, however. In many equipment financing situations, such as the financing of aircraft for chartering and inventory for equipment rental companies in which equipment is then subleased to third parties etc., the equipment lender takes a security interest in the third-party rental proceeds in addition to the equipment itself. If the customer files for bankruptcy protection, how bankruptcy courts deal with third-party rental proceeds can significantly impact the total dollar amount realized on the equipment lender's claim.

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