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DarrowEverett LLP

Mastering the Art of Lease Negotiation: Crafting Win-Win Agreements

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Clients often request that their counsel focus lease negotiations exclusively on those terms most likely to have the most significant impact on economics and the long-term relationship with the counterparty. This request...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

How Detailed Site Plans and Letters of Intent Can Streamline Your Lease Negotiations

As leases get more complicated and less standardized, and with properties rarely conforming from one to another, there are two documents that can hasten the successful negotiation process and achieve a document that can best...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Importance of Negotiating Assignment and Subletting Provisions in Health Care Leases

In our ongoing series of blog posts, we examine key negotiating points for tenants in triple net health care leases. We also offer suggestions for certain lease provisions that will protect tenants from overreaching and...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Take Me Out To...Baseball Arbitration

​​​​​​​Since 1974, “baseball arbitration” has been used to resolve salary disputes between ballplayers and team owners. Its primary purpose is to determine the arbitrating player’s salary based upon specific criteria to...more

Lowndes

Lease Provisions that Should be Re-Evaluated in a Post-COVID World – Part II: Maintenance Obligations, Assignment/Subletting,...

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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

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Commercial Leases in New York: Enforcement Is on Pause, but Negotiations Should Be Ongoing

New York courts are resuming some operations, but eviction proceedings, including for violations of commercial leases, are still suspended. However, those contracts — and the obligations they created — still exist. ...more

Allen Matkins

Tactics to Avoid Unanticipated Post-Closing Leasing Costs

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Potential buyers and lenders evaluate existing leases of stabilized properties and anticipated lease income of value-add projects in determining which assets to acquire or finance. Rental income, whether existing or...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Demystifying the Commercial Lease: Tenant Relocation Provisions

This article is part of a series on Demystifying the Commercial Lease. Previous articles in the series discuss Types of Leases, Letters of Intent, Base Rent, and Common Area Maintenance Charges. This article discusses tenant...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

Letter of Intent Fundamentals

It’s not as easy to try out commercial rental space as it is musical instruments. It’s expensive for the landlord to get the space ready for a tenant, and it’s expensive and disruptive to the tenant’s business to move into a...more

Cozen O'Connor

Don’t Get Grossed Out by a Net Lease

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A lease is the first foray into real estate for many young entrepreneurs. With the exception of the dorm occupancy contract in college, and possibly a residential apartment lease in graduate school, most entrepreneurs have...more

Lowndes

There Ain’t No Such Thing as Free Rent

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Commercial tenants sometimes bargain for “free rent” periods from landlords as part of the lease negotiation process, and both tenants and landlords may view free rent periods as a “concession” by the landlord in lease...more

Troutman Pepper

Do I Need a Commercial Real Estate Broker?

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For companies looking to expand into new markets or change locations within the same market, there is always the looming question of whether to engage a commercial real estate broker to help navigate the market or to go it...more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Client Alert: Does Your Lease Agreement Contain a Right of Refusal or Option to Purchase? If So, You Should Read This.

In Cogdill v. Sylva Supply Company, Inc., filed May 7, 2019, the North Carolina Court of Appeals held in a split decision and as a matter of first impression that a right of first refusal contained in a written lease...more

Gray Reed

Commercial Lease Assignments: A Tale Of Two Leases And Landlord’s Right To Recapture

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An Overview of Assignment Rights - Commercial leases typically contain standard protections for landlords that may be potential pitfalls for tenants seeking to assign or transfer interests in a lease. A lease recapture...more

Troutman Pepper

Commercial Evictions: Mitigation in Commercial Lease Defaults

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When negotiating a commercial lease, one party or both parties often raise the issue of mitigation, generally meaning to make less severe. In the commercial lease context, it is most often discussed in the defaults and...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Landlords and Property Managers Beware: Co-Tenancy Provisions Are Not Just Window Dressing

To sophisticated landlords and property managers, co-tenancy provisions contained in commercial leases are routine and (relatively) unexciting. Unfortunately—and perhaps as a result—such clauses are often overlooked. ...more

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