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 an effort to protect small businesses from high rents, on June 13, both houses of New York's legislature passed a bill, S1163, that prohibits "rent minimums" in real estate secured loan documents. As of this writing, this...more
California’s Commercial Tenant Protection Act (SB-1103) took effect on January 1, 2025. Conceived as a transparency and displacement prevention measure for small businesses, the new law creates tenant protections for small...more
Learn How SB 1103 Could Impact You - Although the parties to commercial leases in California have historically had the freedom to bargain over nearly all terms of a lease with little statutory restraint, a law that came into...more
While not all landlords prefer—or are able—to lease their commercial properties exclusively to large, creditworthy “national” tenants, these tenants are attractive due to their strong financial stability. However, what about...more
Litigation attorney Anne Beehler and real estate attorney Andrew Starrels co-authored a Law360 article examining the Commercial Tenant Protection Act (S.B. 1103) in California that grants new rights to qualified commercial...more
Recent legislative changes impose new requirements for owners of California commercial properties, at least with respect to certain specified types of tenants. Effective Jan. 1, 2025, the Commercial Tenant Protection Act,...more
California Senate Bill 1103 ("SB 1103") takes effect January 1, 2025 and will impact leases, amendments, and other lease modifications with respect to commercial property in California. In an effort to provide additional...more
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the Commercial Tenant Protection Act (SB 1103) into law on September 30, 2024, in what supporters billed as first-in-the-nation commercial tenant protections to safeguard the smallest...more
On September 30, 2024, Governor Newsom approved California Senate Bill No. 1103, which extends certain rights previously reserved for residential tenants to “qualified commercial tenants,” which includes any tenant that is...more
Beginning Jan. 1, 2025, California commercial property owners will have to contend with new (and expanded) tenant protections for any small business or nonprofit that is a “qualified commercial tenant” under SB 1103. More...more
Two recent bankruptcy court decisions reflect a split of authority on subchapter V eligibility. In re Macedon Consulting Inc. finds that all future amounts due under an unexpired lease qualify as “noncontingent and...more
In a highly-anticipated decision, Judge Ronnie Abrams of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled on March 31, 2023, in Melendez v. City of New York, that New York City's Guaranty Law is...more
Mayor Bruce Harrell officially ended the City of Seattle Civil Emergency Proclamation on October 31, 2022, which affects the requirement for landlords to negotiate payment plans with commercial tenants that qualify as a small...more
As we previously reported, the Bankruptcy Code saw many changes in 2020 and 2021. Some of the changes that were enacted under the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 ("CAA") will soon end....more
The UK Government yesterday announced that it will proceed with the phasing out of temporary measures introduced to protect businesses from creditor action during the COVID-19 pandemic, whilst also announcing new measures to...more
In February 2020, just prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, the Small Business Reorganization Act of 2019 (Subchapter V) took effect. Subchapter V amends Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code to allow certain individuals and...more
On March 9, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law the New York State COVID-19 Emergency Protect Our Small Businesses Act of 2021 (S471A/A3207) (the “Act”). After a full year of commercial tenants and commercial...more
Congress passed new, temporary bankruptcy relief measures late last year that impact certain commercial landlords and tenants. Among other things, the new legislation, which was signed into law on Dec. 27, 2020: 1) extends...more
On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 became law. In addition to funding the government and providing coronavirus relief, the Act contains several intriguing amendments to the Bankruptcy Code. The...more
In a highly anticipated decision, Judge Ronnie Abrams of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, in Melendez v. City of New York, dismissed a challenge to the “Guaranty Law” and related...more
How is one Am Law 200 firm working towards solutions to the hardships small businesses are facing in 2020? Join us as guest host and Furia Rubel Public Relations Account Director, Caitlan McCafferty, goes on record with...more
Previously set to expire August 18, 2020, Governor Baker has extended Chapter 65 of the Acts of 2020, An Act Providing for a Moratorium on Evictions and Foreclosures During the COVID-19 Emergency (the “Act”), by 60 days...more
Recent Updates - July 21, 2020: Update reflects the changes to the Declaration of Emergency and the rolling out of Stage 3 in Ontario. ...more
Recent Updates - July 13, 2020: Updates to OCERCA are reflected as well as updates to the extension of emergency orders in Ontario, and the extension of the State of Emergency in British Columbia. ...more
Recent Updates - July 7, 2020: Updates reflect the changes in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, as some regular court operations begin to re-open. This update also includes the extension of British Columbia's State of...more