Security Interests and Liens Priorities

Summary

This practice note discusses the requirements for the attachment and perfection of consensual security interests in personal property under Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). A security interest is said to attach to collateral when it becomes a right that is enforceable against the debtor's property. Perfection places third parties, including the debtor's other creditors, on notice of the existence of a security interest.