Altair Global Credit Opportunities Fund v. Employees Retirement System

In these appeals involving bonds issued in 2008 by the Employees Retirement System (the System) of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which were purchased by bondholders (the Bondholders), the First Circuit held that the Bondholders satisfied the filing requirements for perfection of their security interest as of December 17, 2016, thus reversing the district court’s ruling that the Bondholders’ interest was not perfected and so could be avoided.The bond documentation here offered as security certain property belonging or owed to the System. When the Bondholders claimed a perfected security interest in that property, the System filed suit seeking declaratory judgments relating to the Bondholders’ asserted security interest. The Bondholders counterclaimed. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the System, concluding that the Bondholders’ interest was not perfected. The First Circuit disagreed, holding that while financing statements filed in 2008 did not perfect the Bondholders’ security interest in the pledged property, financing statement amendments filed in 2015 and 2016 satisfied the filing requirements for perfection when read in conjunction with the 2008 financing statements. View "Altair Global Credit Opportunities Fund v. Employees Retirement System" on Justia Law