D&O Insurance Myths (Part 1)
What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Is It Time to Find a New Supplier?
What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Candid Conversations with Suppliers in Distress
What to Do if Your Suppliers Are in Distress - Identifying Suppliers in Distress
The Calm Before the Storm: Planning for Catastrophic Weather Events
Out With a Bang: Current State of Play on Coverage for COVID-Related Losses
Regulating the Internet of Things
The Intersection of Insurance and Bankruptcy – Part 2
On-Demand Webinar | Impacts of COVID-19 on Litigation Economic Damages
On-Demand Webinar | Insurance Issues Faced by Employers in Times of COVID-19
COVID-19 in the Workplace - PPP Update, COVID Plans from the Biden Transition Team, Higher Education Relief Package Provision, COVID WARN Act Developments
How an Am Law 200 Firm is Working Towards Solutions to 2020’s Challenges with Jeremy Sacks: On Record PR
Second-Wave Contingency Planning and Risk Mitigation Strategies - Diagnosing Health Care Podcast
COVID-19 Business Interruption Insurance Claims: A Practical Perspective
WEBINAR: COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Class Actions
Compliance Perspectives: Compliance During a Business Interruption
Butler's Thursday Tips #3 | Handling Business Loss Claims
AF COVID-19 Podcast: Business Interruption Coverage, Do You Have a Claim?
Lifting the Fog Over Lobbying Compliance - updated with impact of COVID-19 on NYS lobbying community
Litigation and COVID-19: How to Protect Your Business in This Time of Crisis
It has now been just over a month since multiple wildfires erupted throughout the Greater Los Angeles area, bringing widespread devastation to the highly populated area in an event that could end up being the costliest...more
This week, the Federal Court of Justice (BGH) issued its eagerly awaited judgment on rent payment obligations during COVID-related business closures. The judgment eases, at least in part, landlords and tenants’ uncertainty...more
A further judgment has been handed down in respect of COVID-19 rent arrears. Implied terms, failure of consideration and set-off, were all cited as reasons why the tenant ought not to pay its rent during periods of...more
On June 29, 2021, in The Gap, Inc. v. 170 Broadway Retail Owner, LLC, the New York Appellate Division, First Department, overturned an earlier decision by the New York Supreme Court and issued a decisive victory to commercial...more
As pandemic-related shutdowns battered the retail and restaurant industry, many tenants avoided defaulting on their leases by negotiating a lease workout. These agreements often provided tenants some much-needed rent relief...more
In April and May of 2020, the unprecedented challenges resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and the related mandatory closures and restrictions on operations began to be felt by retail tenants across the United States. As a...more
Does the owner bear the risk in case of bankruptcy? Due to the tense situation in the hotel industry, various lessees are currently approaching their lessors asking for deferral or abatement of rent payments for the...more
Corona virus as a force majeure event in hotel lease agreements - Rent payment and business interruption insurance - Since the hotel industry is severely affected by the current situation due to the new corona virus...more
The Corona Crisis has hit the real estate market in general, but in particular it is impacting the retail and hospitality sectors. The scale and business relevance of the Corona Crisis is somehow unprecedented, and therefore...more
German government plans to qualify usage restrictions due to state Covid-19-related measures as a disruption of the business basis of lease agreements. On 13 December 2020, the Federal Government and the Minister Presidents...more
The pandemic has significantly impacted the real estate sector. With a surge in the number of employees who work from home, the demand for office space has softened. At the same time, growth in e-commerce has exploded,...more
In Part I of this series, we discussed how COVID-19 had impacted almost every provision of a commercial lease, including the covenant of quiet enjoyment, continuous use provisions and force majeure clauses, among others....more
Almost six months into the COVID-19 global pandemic, it is apparent that the commercial leasing landscape has changed indefinitely. Going forward, landlords and tenants will need to re-evaluate certain common lease provisions...more
Much has been written about commercial real estate in a post-Covid world. As real estate users consider how Covid will change their space needs, they should also consider what provisions will serve them in future...more
This 20th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, finds both plaintiffs and defendants with reasons to celebrate. Insurance carriers avoided consolidation of coverage disputes in...more
The first reported substantive ruling by a judge sitting in Illinois on the legal implications of whether COVID-19 and the resulting governmental shelter-in-place orders relieve a tenant’s obligation to pay rent pursuant to a...more
For many years, the good guy guarantee (GGG) has played a prominent role in defining relations between commercial landlords and tenants. It is used across all commercial property types, from retail to office to industrial....more
As the COVID-19 or novel coronavirus pandemic continues, landlords have increasingly received communication from distressed tenants requesting rent relief and, in some circumstances, lease termination....more
As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads across the globe, so does uncertainty. Landlords and tenants are facing unprecedented impacts on their businesses, and it is no surprise in this environment that both parties are looking to...more
While it is true that a number of States and local municipalities have stopped all eviction proceedings and many courts are currently closed, the issue of rent remains front and center between landlords and tenants. The...more
The COVID-19 epidemic presents significant challenges to the commercial real estate market in the United States. As governors impose shutdown orders and Americans are told to shelter-in-place, commercial offices and retail...more
This fall’s Dallas tornado was especially vexing to Winn Blohn who stored many personal belongings in Sasha Stach’s Stach-a-Lot Self-Storage unit. Sasha denied access to all the units for weeks. ...more