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Merchant Cash Advance Attorneys
- Is a Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) ruining your business cash flow?
- Were you denied when you tried to consolidate or refinance?
- Are you stacked with multiple funders?
- Are you looking for alternative repayment options?
- Are you getting hounded by collection calls?
- Have you been sued?
- Are your bank accounts or receivables frozen?
If you’ve answered “YES” to any of these questions, our Merchant Cash Advance Attorneys can help!
Our Attorneys can make your advance more affordable!
We Can Help:
Reconcile Your Payments
Lower the Factored Amount (Contractual Purchased Amount)
Pause Your Payments
Lower the Daily or Weekly Drafts
Change Draft Frequencies (Daily to Weekly / Weekly to Monthly)
Extend Your Purchase Agreement Repayment Period
Remedy Default & Breached Contracts
Protect You & Your Business From Default
Deal with Collectors, Lawsuits, Judgments, & Frozen Bank Accounts
Release Receivables Frozen From UCC Lien Enforcement Efforts
Save Time and Avoid Costly Mistakes
Save Money or Don’t Pay Our Contingency Fee!
MCA Relief Attorneys Will Help You Regain Control of Your Cash Flow!
Our business attorneys and arbitrators have successfully worked with many struggling business owners like yourself, that were caught in high-cost Merchant Cash Advance traps.
We can offer experienced advice and can help you to protect your cash flow and your assets thereby alleviating the worrying and stressing over frozen accounts or receivables.
In addition to freeing up your cash flow, retaining our Law Firm to deal with your predator funders will save you time as we relieve you of the harassing and embarrassing collection calls by sending notice of limited power of attorney to your MCA Purchaser, their collectors, attorneys, and even the Marshall or Sheriff if they are trying to enforce your purchasing agreement.
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All Default & Breached Contract Cures are represented as a percentage of the Total Cure Amount Paid Back.
For example, 40% means that 40% of the Breached Amount was Paid Back and 60% Forgiven.
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Options for Dealing with Merchant Cash Advances
The below options each have their own benefits and drawbacks so be sure to call for your free consultation so one of our experienced counselors can explain each option thoroughly.
Pause Remittances
Restructure Draft Amounts
Default & Breach Cures
We can negotiate lower factored rates, thereby discounting the “purchased amount” to recuperate your future pledged receivables.
Lawsuit Defense
We can defend you if sued, we can remove Confessions of Judgment, and we can even stop UCC lien enforcement efforts if your receivables are frozen!
Sue Your MCA Company
An MCA is NOT a loan, if your agreement wasn’t worded properly, we’ll sue to void your contract! We can also sue brokers that lied to you!!!
Bankruptcy
MCAs are dischargeable in bankruptcy. We file personal & corporate cases, but can usually avoid bankruptcy thanks to our many alternative options.
The Difference Between a Loan and Merchant Cash Advance
With both Loans and MCAs, money is given and paid back. The key to understanding the difference lies in how each is paid back.
With a Loan or Line of Credit (LOC), funds are lent to you, and you pay back the money lent plus interest. You repay the funds according to set terms and conditions and for the most part, the payments are determined by the amount lent to you, the interest rate, and the defined time period of the Loan or LOC*. Payments for Loans and LOCs need to be made regardless of revenues coming into your business.
Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) is a nickname for a ‘Future Receivables Sale and Purchase Agreement’. With an MCA, you are not lent money, but instead, you (the ‘Merchant‘) made an agreement with your Funder in which they would pay you an agreed upon amount of ‘Cash‘ in ‘Advance‘ to purchase the rights to your company’s future revenue that you will receive! The MCA Funder pays a discounted lump sum amount upfront, known as the ‘Purchase Price’, and you agree to pay a specified percentage of each dollar of revenue that you bring in, until the full agreed-upon amount known as the ‘Purchased Amount’, has been paid back to the Funder. Since the MCA is paid back a percentage of each dollar of your future revenue as it actually comes into your business, neither the payments or time period are defined. An MCA Funder takes the risk that your business might not have future revenue, and therefore, they may not get paid back.
MCA Contracts are Written to Favor Your Funders
To Protect THEM if You Can’t Pay.
We Know MCA Contracts and We Know The Law
To Protect YOU if You Can’t Pay!
- We can force your funder to Pause their account debits.
- We can force your funder to lower their daily or weekly debit amounts.
- We can even force your funder to refund money you have already paid if it exceeds the amount you should have paid, based on the percentage of your actual revenue they were entitled to.
*Payments will actually vary depending on whether the Loan or LOC is amortizing or interest-only, as well as whether the interest is fixed-rate or variable.
Did You Use a Broker to Obtain Your Funding?
Funders Set You Up to Struggle – Brokers Set You Up to Fail.
MCA Funders make an enormous profit over a short period of time, when you pay back your obligation, therefore, MCA Funders will not typically set you up to fail since they want you to pay them back. Funders will set you up to struggle as they will typically give you just as much as you can handle so your payments will cause you to constantly struggle to keep your head above water. By causing you to struggle consistently, it creates the need for repeat funding over and over again, which means even more profit for your funders over the long haul.
Brokers work on commission and are not using their own money to fund you – so they do not care if you pay your Funder back all the money or not! Brokers will typically fund your business with many different funders as possible to earn multiple commission checks! Often times, Brokers will arrange for multiple sources of funding at the same time, thereby stacking your business with more advances (and payments) than you can handle setting you up to fail. If you don’t pay back your Funder – or if your business fails – THE BROKERS DO NOT CARE if they already received their commission check! Brokers are known to coach business into giving specific answers on recorded funding calls and are known to lie about almost anything – just to close their deal! The most common lie we hear from our clients is that a broker told them:
“the Merchant Advance is only temporary. Once you pay for a month and establish good payment history, we’ll be able to put you into a traditional loan.”
The traditional loan of course never comes and the MCA payments will have been so much to bear that you are not out of funds and the broker will instead just try to get you a different MCA to either replace the existing one, or will another one to add to it to “help make the payments on the existing advance”. Either way, your payments are going to be more than you can handle! We hold brokers accountable for their misrepresentations and can defend and even initiate our own lawsuits against your Brokers and/or Funders to make them pay for their actions!
We have years of experience dealing with Merchant Cash Advance Funders. Don’t use trial and error trying to figure this out on your own with thousands of your dollars at stake when errors can be costly! Let our Attorneys and Arbitrators defend you or negotiate on your behalf to save you as much time and money as possible – the right way!
UCC Liens & Frozen Receivables
If you took out a Merchant Cash Advance, Business Loan, or Line of Credit (LOC), then you have likely given the right to your lender to file a Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) Lien against you. A UCC lien allows your funder to freeze your receivables.
At the time of underwriting or any time since then, if you have provided your funder with:
- a customer list;
- trade references;
- bank statements; or
- access to your bank account,
you can assume that within a few days of your breach or default, UCC liens will be filed against you and your funders will send a copy of the UCC lien to anyone they know of that pays you! If you use a merchant processor (credit card terminal, Square, PayPal, Shopify, etc.) or if you have customers that your funders know about – your incoming funds may be at risk of UCC Lien enforcement efforts.
Any UCC Lien recipient, will be instructed not to pay you, but to pay your funder instead – including your customers. Not only is that extremely embarrassing, but without any money coming in, how will you continue to run your business? Many of your customers that receive notice of the UCC Lien may see that as a sign of weakness and may look to do business elsewhere so it can cause problems in more ways than one. UCC liens are by far the most frequent issue we hear about from those first contacting our Law Firm for help after having defaulted on their payment obligations.
While your funders can use judgments to try to freeze your receivables, ever since Confessions of Judgment (COJ) were banned in NY against out of state business owners, unless your business is located in NY or your funder made you sign a COJ under the jurisdiction of a different state, your now has to sue you and win their lawsuit in order to obtain a judgment against you. The lawsuit process takes much more time to enter judgment than did filing a COJ, therefore, funders now use UCC liens as the fastest way to freeze your money.
We have seen and dealt with virtually every possible frozen funds situation. We’ve helped countless business owners unfreeze their bank accounts and receivables. If your business has receivables that your funders can freeze, the best strategy is to be proactive and get our help before you default so we can help free up your cash flow and either pause or lower your drafts to help avoid defaulting in the first place. If we get your funders to agree you’ll never have to worry about your receivables ever being frozen. If your receivables are already frozen, the sooner you put us to work, the better your results are likely to be.
We Help With Confessions of Judgment and Lawsuits
The laws regarding the filing of Confession of Judgments (COJ) in New York have recently changed. If you are an out of state business owner, a confession of judgment can no longer be filed against you in the state of NY. The changes to the NY law are a major win for business owners outside of NY, however, the law does not affect those living in NY as, COJ’s can still be filed against NY residents. It is important to take note that the COJ laws have not changed in any other states – only in NY – so COJs can still be filed against you in states outside of New York as most funders have turned to the following states that still allow COJs:
- California
- Colorado
- Delaware
- Illinois
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- Ohio
- Pennsylvania
- Utah
- Wisconsin
WE CAN HELP EVEN IF YOUR FUNDERS MADE YOU SIGN A CONFESSION OF JUDGMENT!
Additionally, there have been an increased number of lawsuits filed in New York and elsewhere since the COJ ban has gone into place which is a great thing, as we can defend lawsuits, and buy you time to work out a payment arrangement or cure the lawsuit for less than the alleged balance. By defending the lawsuit, we can help prevent judgment entry against your business and you personally.
*CONSIDER YOURSELF WARNED*
IN ALL YOUR SEARCHING FOR HELP IF THERE
WAS ONE THING THAT YOU SHOULD REALLY READ
IT WOULD BE THIS ENTIRE SECTION
Most others in the relief industry typically do not discuss any downsides of their services, but instead, will harp mainly on how much you stand to save. Just like the MCA Brokers, they will basically tell you anything you want to hear just to close a deal and earn their commission check. Be especially warned of any company that tells you to make one payment into a ‘trust‘ or ‘escrow‘ account that makes their relief seem like it’s going to be a walk in the park. These companies are known for misrepresenting their tremendous upfront fees and telling you, “Don’t worry about the fees because they’re all included in the trust payments“. They typically over promise and under deliver by giving estimates based on cherry picked scenarios of best possible results, not typical results.
Many business owners are struggling so badly that they will believe any promises of help. They do not even stop to think these promises are coming from telemarketers, that are only calling since they know of the financial struggles, and these ambulance chasers prey on stressed out business owners that are under duress in hopes of convincing them to make an irrational quick decision. More business owners than you would ever imagine hire these telemarketers to fix their problems without ever checking these companies’ reputations! DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU or before you know it your incoming receivables and bank accounts are frozen and you’ll have no funds to operate. When you call these other providers to find out why your accounts and receivables have been frozen, you’ll quickly find out that no progress has been made because even though you were told all the fees would be included, you were not told that the fees are paid upfront leaving no available money to pay your funders! In disbelief, you go read the agreement you signed and you’ll realize how you were duped and not only are all the fees paid upfront, but THEIR FEES ARE NON-REFUNDABLE, AND PAID AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE AMOUNT YOU OWE LEAVING NO INCENTIVE FOR THEM TO DO A GREAT JOB, ONLY INCENTIVE TO CONVINCE YOU TO HIRE THEM in the first place! Only then do you do your research on the company and you’ll find out they’ve done the same thing to many other business owners. Even worse once you fire them, your business will be far worse off than it was originally not only because you wasted money paying a company that did nothing for you, but your funders have since added a ton of extra fees as per their agreements. Funder fees are typically in the ballpark of:
- insufficient fund fees (typically $35 per occurrence)
- stop payment fees (typically $500 – $5,000)
- fees for changing bank & merchant accounts (typically $100 – $2,500)
- default fees (typically $2,500 – $5,000)
- 3rd party interference fees (typically $2,500 – $5,000)
- AND ADDITIONAL LEGAL FEES FOR FILING UCC LIENS, COJs, AND LAWSUITS!
Most MCA Funders will NOT even talk to third parties – unless the third party is a law firm! This means the many companies promising relief that are not law firms typically have to hire an Attorney themselves to get the work done and their profit lies in the difference between what you pay them in fees and what they pay the law firm they hire, so why go through a middle man instead of direct to a law firm yourself? Not only will you save on their added profit margin, but wouldn’t you rather be counseled instead of sold? Our competitors only offer one solution because it is the one they have the greatest profit margin with and will therefore make it seem like their one and only option will be best for you no matter your specific situation. But think about it…if one solution really worked for everyone – why do multiple solutions exist? How will you make an educated decision as to what’s best for your business if you are not even educated as to all the different options?
Non-Law Firms will NOT be able to give you legal advice. If they do provide legal advice, they are doing so illegally, and it may not be accurate! If sued, they will NOT be there for you as they can NOT represent you in court!
Hire A Law Firm or Don’t Hire Anyone!
We Offer SIX Solutions – Not Just One
We Have Experienced Attorneys & Affordable Fees
We Don’t Charge Our Contingency Fee If We Don’t Succeed So Our Incentive to Succeed for You!
We Discuss the Pros AND Cons of Each of Our Different Options
Let Us Help Save Your Business!
Merchant Cash Advances, Personal Guarantees, and Bankruptcy
If you have done anything to breach your signed MCA agreements, your obligation will not go away by closing your business as your funders will look to enforce your personal guarantees. Some actions that are considered breaches of your funding agreements can be:
- not disclosing existing funders during underwriting,
- obtaining additional funding,
- using a factoring company,
- stopping or blocking payments,
- revoking access to view your bank accounts,
- changing bank accounts,
- changing merchant processors,
- and several other ways.
If you breached your agreements and want to file bankruptcy, filing business bankruptcy won’t relieve you of your personal liabilities and filing personal bankruptcy won’t relieve your business of its liabilities. Meaning, if you are a business owner and want to file for bankruptcy, the obligation for your business to pay could be discharged, however, your personal liabilities would remain (and vice versa). We can file all types of both personal and corporate bankruptcies like Chapter 7, Chapter 11 including Subchapter V, and Chapter 13. We also offer MANY alternatives to bankruptcy if you’d like to avoid filing bankruptcy completely!
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Why Choose Dramer Law for Your Company’s MCA Needs?
Merchant Cash Advances Are Our Specialty
Other companies and law firms offer bankruptcy and ways to help with your MCAs – we specialize in it! All of our services are strictly debt related so our clients have unique needs that we can cater to when compared to the needs of clients of other general practice law firms. We know how overwhelming MCAs can be emotionally as they drain your business of available funds. We offer many different relief options and we service our clients like family so we’ll explain all your options and won’t rush you through this difficult time.
Affordable Fees
Since our clients don’t have tons of money to spare like attorneys that practice in other areas of law, we make our fees affordable allowing payments over time, allowing you to get your relief started as soon as possible! Unless your case involves one of our attorneys having to go to court, our service fees are not charged hourly, but instead are based on performance.
One on One Client Service
All of our client relationships are One on One. You’ll have one individual client service representative that will be your point of contact and you’ll build a relationship with them so they’ll know exactly what you are going through. Aside from treating you with the upmost care possible, this means you won’t have to deal with multiple people and re-explain your situation to a different person each time you call. This saves time for you and eliminates any extra stress for you as time is money and being stress free is just as important as being debt free!
Our Response Time With Both You and Your Funders
All of our attorneys, paralegals, and staff are dedicated to providing the best possible experience, while achieving results. We are available long hours but should we happen to be unavailable for any reason we pride ourselves on returning calls and emails right away, not several days later like most other law firms. If a law firm or company you hire doesn’t return your calls in a timely manner, do you think they will be timely in responding to communications from your Funders? How hard do you think they are working for you? If you search the internet you will see horror stories caused by the actions of our unresponsive competitors, which lead funders to seek collection efforts against business owners personally – often meaning lawsuits.
Our Reputation
Many times, after we successfully help our business owners with their MCAs, certain problems may have spilled over to their personal lives. We offer many different services for those struggling financially with Personal Debts, Past Due Mortgage Payments, Back Taxes, Student Loans, Timeshares, and more. When ANY Debt is the Problem – We Have the Answers!
Other Services
Many times, after we successfully help our business owners with their MCAs, certain problems may have spilled over to their personal lives. We offer many different services for those struggling financially with Personal Debts, Past Due Mortgage Payments, Back Taxes, Student Loans, Timeshares, and more. When ANY Debt is the Problem – We Have the Answers!
How Dramer Law Handles Our Business Relief & MCA Cases
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Free Consultation, Fact Finding, & Financial Analysis
The First Step in Becoming Debt-Free & Stress-Free Starts With Your Free Consultation
When you call our firm, we will want to know how and when your financial hardship began as well as what the current status is, to get a better understanding of what you are experiencing. Our staff is trained to ask the right questions to make sure that no stone in your financial picture goes un-turned. Any representative that will speak with you will have a minimum of 10 years experience.
We analyze your current financial situation including your assets and liabilities as well as your current cash flow, allowing us to narrow down our services more specific to your needs. This step is critical in any of our processes as we ensure that whatever service we recommend will be within your budget and therefore you’re more likely to succeed.
Full Disclosure, Recommendation, & Customization
There are multiple options for each problem we encounter.
Based on your analysis; we will then tailor fit the best option to the individual needs of your budget. We will explain in great detail all aspects of each process including the risks & fees – not just how much money you can save. Nothing will be hidden from you as we are a full disclosure law firm.
Our Lawyers and other representatives are NOT paid a commission so there will be no sales pressure at our law firm. There is no obligation to retain our services. You will be given all the facts you need, and then you will be given plenty of time to think things over. Your business decisions are important and we won’t rush you! We have worked hard over the years to earn the reputation we have by giving honest advice to those in need rather than the advice that benefits our bottom line!
Limited Power of Attorney & Authorization to Communicate
Funders are Sent Notice of our Representation
Once retained, we immediately send a copy of our Limited Power of Attorney to your funders, their debt-collectors, or attorneys. Sending notice of representation is the first step in curbing any creditor or collector calls you may be receiving. We do not want you to be harassed – we’ll take over the calls for you.
We Get The Job Done
We Work Efficiently & Quickly
The combination of our experience, well-trained representatives, long hours, and state of the art software, allow us to accomplish more in any given day than most other firms only dream about. This can be said for ANY business relief service we offer from negotiations to litigation to bankruptcy. We work quickly on your behalf as the longer you delay your assistance, the more fees and penalties your funders add your balances. We will be in touch with you throughout the process to keep you informed and will be available when you need us.
We are Incentivized to Perform
Our negotiation services are offered a fee structure as such that you pay a small part of the fee when retaining our firm and the rest only if we’re successful. The success fee helps ensure we are incentivized, so you’ll know we have your best interests in mind. We don’t benefit from getting you to hire our law firm, but instead, we benefit when we get the job done for you. You pay for our performance – and that’s what we do – we perform! We never agree to anything without first consulting with you and getting your approval. It is your business and your money, so you have the final say in all of our negotiations.
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At The Law Offices of Kenneth H Dramer PC, before we make any recommendations, our attorneys, paralegals, and legal assistants are trained to ask the right questions to find out about your specific situation. Based on your current situation and financial hardship, we will determine which course of action will work best for you. We do not only offer one path, as no one process can solve everyone’s needs. We will take our time with you and help evaluate what your best course of action should be. CALL NOW FOR A FREE CONSULTATION and one of our advisors will be there to get you started on your path to financial freedom. There is no obligation to enroll, so don’t delay.
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Call today for your free consultation with an experienced member of our team who will ask the right questions to determine the best course of action. They will go over each option that will make sense for your situation and will be sure to discuss in detail the pros and cons of each.
See How Much Money We Can Save You
Each option will have its own savings potential. Keep in mind the greater the downsides a choice may have the greater the potential for savings. Our representatives will be sure you understand the cost benefits and will be sure to disclose our fees fully.
Hire and Let the Savings Begin
Once retained, we waste no time in taking action. We will work quickly and efficiently to bring a successful resolution to your situation. You will be assigned a specific member of our team that will be in constant contact with you throughout the process.
You have nothing to lose except for your debt!
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