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See Champion Auto Sales vs. However, the ruling did not provide any detailed framework for determining what provisions of an MCA agreement could convert it from a legal purchase contract to a usurious loan.
Some of these details were provided by the second department in LG Funding v. United Senior Props. This has created a significant amount of litigation over whether reconciliation is corporate right and therefore the agreement is not a loan or discretionary and illusory thus creating a loan-like absolute payment obligation. When the courts before LG financing largely on the donor side, subsequent decisions closely scrutinized the obligation of reconciliation.
Last month, the first department of Davis v. This probably means that after Davis the decision of the first instance court will focus on additional provisions in the MCA agreements beyond the LG financing factors to determine the true nature of the transaction. Further, the ruling suggests that, even if the MCA agreement were valid when it was entered into, a subsequent failure by the funder to provide a reconciliation would not only constitute a violation, but could prove that a funder has.
The past few years have seen a spate of litigation against MCA funders by state and federal investigators alleging usury and violations of other consumer protection laws. In People of New York State v. Index No. The NYAG also alleges that post-contractual conduct grants loans to agreements, including filing admissions of judgment or enforcing personal guarantees in the event of a missed single payment, filing false affidavits, double deducting daily payments, and refusing to grant reconciliations.
Instead, citing the recent Davis decision, he said the NYAG had sufficiently alleged fraudulent conduct on the part of the donors to overcome any rejection on the basis of documentary evidence arguments by the donors. The court seems to interpret Davis as allowing it to look not only beyond the four corners of an MCA agreement to determine whether there had been usurious intent at the time of the transaction, but to subsequent fault that could retroactively subject the loans of the MCA agreements to the New York usury criminal law.
Donors using legacy agreements drafted when the MCA industry was in its infancy are the target of such litigation, but even regularly updated agreements should be reconsidered in this environment. However, exposure to litigation — and frankly criminal — cannot be mitigated by just a well-written form. Future litigation and investigations may examine not only the four corners of MCA agreements, but also the pre and post-contractual behavior of funders, vendors, underwriters and independent sales offices, to determine if the product has been successful.
In addition, various state legislatures including New York have introduced or passed legislation covering MCA agreements.
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