#assignee

• Assignee — A person in whose favor an assignment or a formal transfer of rights, funds, or assets is made; the legal beneficiary of a payment delegation. In a structural and contractual sense, the assignee is the one authorized to receive a sum of money from a debtor (assignee) following the order given by an initial creditor (assignor).
• Assignee — A person or entity in whose favor an assignment is made; the beneficiary of a payment order, a delegation of debt, or a legal transfer of property rights. In a historical and commercial context, it represented the merchant or creditor structurally authorized to collect a sum of money from a third-party debtor, based on an official document issued by the assignor.