Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 512: Listen and Learn -- Landlord/Tenant Law (Part 2) - Assignments and Subletting
Eviction Essentials and Lease Management
REFRESH Real Estate Leasing Tips for Nonprofits
The use of a commercial lease to rip off minority owners in a closely held business
Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Tenant Is Doing the Work
Key Lease Work Letter Issues When the Landlord Is Doing the Work
Nonprofit Tenants and Lease Agreements: Best Practices and Pitfalls to Avoid
Real Estate Leasing Tips for Nonprofits
Cornerstone Research Experts in Focus: Mark Garmaise
Effective Lease Negotiations for Healthcare Practices
How Commercial Property Owners Can Collect Unpaid Rent from Commercial Tenants
Landlord and Tenant Lease Risk Reduction for the Cannabis Industry
[Webinar] Cannabis Real Estate Considerations
Goran Musinovic on Healthcare Real Estate Compliance
Troutman Pepper COVID-19 Legal Issues Podcast Series: COVID-19 Commercial Leasing Trends (Part Two)
Commercial/Retail Therapy: Assessing the Pandemic’s Impact on Real Estate
Law Brief®: Debra Bodian Bernstein and Richard Schoenstein Discuss Commercial Lease Defaults During COVID-19
COVID-19 Commercial Leasing Trends (Part One)
How an Am Law 200 Firm is Working Towards Solutions to 2020’s Challenges with Jeremy Sacks: On Record PR
Williams Mullen's COVID-19 Comeback Plan: Landlord and Tenant Negotiations for Existing Commercial Leases Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
In commercial leases, "operating expenses" (often referred to as OPEX, CAM or Common Area Maintenance) generally cover the costs associated with the daily operation, maintenance, and repair of the property. In addition to...more
At the end of each year, many of us ponder whether our current resolutions were achieved and what our resolutions should be for the year to come. Of course, resolutions should be achievable and not simply aspirational. With...more
In our ongoing series of blog posts, we have examined key negotiating points for tenants in triple net health care leases....more
When purchasing a veterinary practice, one of the key considerations is the real estate where the practice operates. If the buyer does not intend to purchase the property itself, they will need to either assume the existing...more
In the New York commercial leasing world, and in almost every privately-owned restaurant lease, the well-known “Good Guy Guaranty” is abundantly common. However, a decision by a judge in the Supreme Court for New York County,...more
In her new Ear to the Ground video, the first of a two-part series on lease work letters, attorney Kimberlee Stafford, Chair of our Real Estate & Land Use Practice Group, discusses key work letter issues and situations when...more
If you’re venturing into the world of commercial real estate, whether as a tenant or a landlord, there’s a plethora of terms you’ll come across. Among these is the seemingly simple idea of the “Lease Commencement Date.” While...more
The North Carolina Court of Appeals this week addressed an important issue involving leases, options to renew, and the North Carolina recordation statutes known as the “Connor Act.” The decision affects anyone who buys or...more
Every spring, usually on the first weekend of good weather, I rush to the local nursery and spend what feels like a week’s worth of wages on new plants, soil, fertilizer, and irrigation lines. I can’t wait to get the...more
What sort of things go through a commercial landlord's mind when receiving a notice from its tenant that the tenant wants consent to assign its lease? The answer is, all sorts of things. The landlord may want the space...more
The long moratorium on most evictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the de facto shutdown of the court system for civil matters, caused most California landlords to defer unlawful detainer and related...more
Justice Ignazio ("Nace") John Ruvolo once observed that the "Illegality of contracts constitutes a vast, confusing and rather mysterious area of the law." McIntosh v. Mills, 121 Cal. App. 4th 333, 344 (2004). One confusing...more
You are a landlord of business premises. You have owned the premises for more than five years. You have granted a lease of your premises to T, which is protected by the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954....more
The last year has been a challenging time and it begs the question, from the landlord’s perspective, what have we learned? One thing for sure is that the average lease, a document that seems (for most landlords) to be like...more
In the wake of COVID-19, commercial landlords are facing unprecedented challenges as they strive to mitigate new risks while maintaining the rapport they have built in their professional communities and with their tenants. ...more
From the start of the unprecedented closure of the New York State Courts to new, “non-essential” filings until yesterday, commercial tenants had no remedy against a landlord seeking to terminate a lease as a result of a...more
In this challenging and rapidly changing environment, real estate players are dealing with the effects of COVID-19 on real property operations in real time. As they make decisions at an accelerated pace, they should bear in...more
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, there is a growing anxiety among commercial tenants and landlords as they assess the ability of tenants to maintain normal business operations. As various cities and states begin...more
Are you a commercial tenant? Has the coronavirus pandemic prompted you to consider temporarily closing your physical location? Does your lease have a “continuous operations” provision?...more
A new infographic released by Cushman & Wakefield looks at the past 10 years of commercial real estate growth in Portland. With so much demand for office space from the multiple industries fueling our region's growth, I’m not...more
Kilpatrick Townsend’s Michael Myers provided an introductory look at the law around commercial leases, as well as certain tactics for negotiating commercial leases, at a 2019 continuing legal education (CLE) seminar at the...more
Where residential leases are often seen as quite straightforward, to many, commercial leases can be intimidating. They represent a long-term financial commitment and contain different terms and nuances not necessary in...more
Commercial leases are not all boilerplate. The nature and sophistication of the business or industry of the tenant can lead to lease terms, addenda, riders and exhibits that are complicated and in some cases contain what the...more
Yesterday, a division of the California Court of Appeal came to the rather surprising conclusion that an assignment of a contract deprived the assignor of the benefit of a contractual limitation on liability. Gietzen v....more
For approximately 50 years, commercial tenants in New York facing potential action for breach of lease and possible eviction have enjoyed the use of a so-called "Yellowstone injunction," which, if granted by the court, froze...more