Alice R. Huneycutt

Notable Experience

• Representation of owners, lenders, and contractors in construction disputes (litigation, arbitration and settlement), including construction defects (highways, curtain-wall of high-rise building, grade and paving projects, faulty construction and numerous other defective work), termination of contract, proper payment defense, lien disputes, bond issues and delay damages.  Litigated breach of road maintenance agreement, negotiated multiparty agreement between governmental entity and private parties for construction contract involving testing of water penetration into elevated structure, cathodic protection, replacement of waterproof membrane and installation of new roadway on surface of elevated structures.
• Real estate litigation experience includes title insurance claims, quiet title suits, boundary disputes, tax deed litigation, and matters involving specific performance, survey errors, prescriptive easements, submerged lands, restrictive covenants and condominium/homeowner association disputes.
• Extensive lease dispute experience, including defaults for economic and non-economic covenants; defense of claims against landlord for breach of covenants, including condition of premises, sick building, and use of appurtenances; disputes regarding operating expenses, BOMA calculations and audits of operating expenses; security issues; failure of landlord to maintain generators/UPS to support critical technology.
• Land use litigation experience includes challenges related to Florida’s Growth Management Act, consistency claims, zoning, economic redevelopment issues, DRI matters and historical designation.
• Litigated purchase and sale of real property issues including specific performance, right of first refusal issues, options, and recovery of deposits.
• Extensive experience in handling complex real estate foreclosures, including residential condominium projects, condominium conversions, office buildings, shopping centers, hotels, apartment complexes, housing developments, golf courses, low-income housing, recreational/yacht clubs, office condominiums, truck stops, convenience stores, restaurants, franchised operations and raw land with sensitive development and environmental issues. Handles cases involving complex loan documents, including syndicated loans, bond financing, REMIC transactions, mezzanine financing, derivatives/swap agreements, and intercreditor agreements.
• Has litigated all types of guaranties: absolute and unconditional, guaranties of payment, guaranties of collection, limited recourse, violation of bad boy acts, performance guaranties, and completion guaranties. Experienced in trial preparation of forensic accounting to demonstrate misapplication of cash collateral to establish bad boy acts.
• Extensive experience in lender liability cases in state and federal court, including breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, tortious interference negligent misrepresentation, usury, lack of good faith, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, antitrust, claims for improper structure of mezzanine debt and senior debt, dishonor of letters of credit, negligent wiring activity, and money laundering related claims. Has significant experience litigating cases involving letters of credit, FedWire regulations, SWIFT, Ponzi schemes, foreign monetary exchange, securities-related matters, investment advisory issues related to the debt structure of mezzanine financing and senior debt, and Bank Security Act issues.
• Handles franchisee litigation and franchise agreements pledged as security. Alice was formerly in-house counsel for Burger King Corporation handling franchise litigation nationally, and all types of issues in the development of sites and real estate disputes.

Credentials

Professional & Community Involvement

• American Bar Association: Section of Litigation and Section of Business Law
• The Florida Bar: Business Law Section
• The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• Hillsborough County Bar Association
• Florida Association for Women Lawyers (FAWL)
• Hillsborough Association of Women Lawyers (HAWL)
• Meritas, Firm Representative
• Real Estate Investment Council (REIC), Tampa Bay

Recognition

• Florida Bar Association: President’s Pro Bono Service Award 1987