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Bankruptcy Destroyed My Perfect (Landlord-Tenant) Relationship!

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February brings us Valentine's Day, and we bring you a tale as old as time. Two people meet, maybe online, maybe at a Chamber of Commerce mixer, maybe over lunch arranged by a broker.  They hit it off and commit to a...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

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Recent Second Circuit Decision Holds that Conducting a Foreclosure Sale upon a Property After a Tenant Files for Bankruptcy...

In New York, it is a standard practice to name all tenants residing in a building when foreclosing upon the property. That is because section 1311 of the New York Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law (“RPAPL”) states...more

Allen Matkins

Consolidated Appropriations Act Provides Bankruptcy Preference Liability Protections for Landlords

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The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (Public Law 116-260) (the Act) contains an important change in bankruptcy law beneficial to landlords of nonresidential properties. Among several amendments to the Bankruptcy Code...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Getting Paid in Bankruptcy – Part III, Landlords, Leases, and Licenses

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In this series, we look at how various payment rights are treated in bankruptcy. A summary like this could not possibly address every right that might arise in any given bankruptcy case. We have omitted several of the...more

Burr & Forman

Who Will Think of the Tenants: Split in Authority Regarding the Interplay Between Bankruptcy Code Sections 363(f) and 365(h)(1)(A)

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A useful tool granted to trustees (and debtors-in-possession) in bankruptcy is the ability to assume or reject leases.1 The trustee can exploit this power to the estate's economic advantage, either assuming or rejecting the...more

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