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Mayer Brown

Early Lease Terminations: Understanding and Managing Avoidance Risks

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When faced with a financially distressed tenant, an early lease termination agreement can be an effective means for a landlord to resolve the uncertainty created by its tenant’s financial distress and to mitigate potential...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

SDNY Chooses “Time Approach” to Calculating Lease Termination Damages Collectible Against a Bankrupt Estate

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Keara Waldron and Lindsay H. Sklar discuss the decision by the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in the case of In re Cortlandt Liquidating LLC, which parted with decades of precedent to endorse and apply...more

Jones Day

New York Bankruptcy Court Breaks from Precedent in Ruling that "Time Approach" Should Be Used to Calculate Landlord's Claim for...

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To prevent landlords under long-term real property leases from reaping a windfall for future rent claims at the expense of other creditors, the Bankruptcy Code caps the amount of a landlord's claim against a debtor-tenant for...more

King & Spalding

Ninth Circuit Rules Lease Damages Cap Does Not Apply to Damages Independent of Termination

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On December 29, 2016, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (the “Court”) issued an opinion, holding that the statutory cap on a landlord’s damages claim in a bankruptcy case applies only to claims resulting...more

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