Overview
Our statewide group offers decades of experience with the nuances involved in real estate litigation. We represent:
- Architects, engineers, contractors and subcontractors
- Banking and financial institutions
- Brokers and real estate agents
- Commercial landlords and tenants
- Construction companies
- Hotel operators
- Lenders
- Property management companies
- Real estate developers
- Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and other institutional and non-institutional real estate-backed investors
- Real Estate Receiverships
Range of Services
Real Estate Lending Disputes
- Advise both lenders and borrowers in connection with monetary and non-monetary loan defaults
- Negotiate forbearance agreements, workouts, deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure, and non-foreclosure settlements with respect to distressed real estate-backed loans
- Represent lenders and secured creditors as well as borrowers and other obligors with respect to judicial and non-judicial foreclosures
- Represent sponsors, investors, joint venturers and other members in disputes implicating ownership interests in real estate collateral
- Participate as counsel for lenders, obligors and/or receivers in litigation involving the appointment and oversight of receiverships of commercial real property, including receivership auctions and sales
- Represent creditors, debtors and trustees in adversary and non-adversary bankruptcy proceedings involving real estate
Real Estate Acquisition and Ownership Litigation
- Counsel sellers and buyers in actions relating to the acquisition of real estate, including prosecution of actions for specific performance
- Represent owners as well as commercial real estate brokers and agents in all types of lawsuits involving real estate commissions
- Enforcement and defense in actions involving condominium restrictions, restrictive covenants, use limitations, and claims of easements or other encumbrances of real property
- Represent property owners in connection with eminent domain claims including takings and valuation issues.
Real Estate Leasing Operations
- Represent commercial landlords and tenants in all aspects of commercial lease disputes
- Enforcement of lease exclusivity provisions
- Negotiate lease termination agreements and enforcement against hold-over tenancies
- Prosecute and defend commercial leasing commission disputes
Notable Experience
- Represent lender in successful negotiation of forbearance agreement to resolve distressed $37 million loan secured by multi-family housing in Tampa Bay
- In a class action, obtained a $100 million settlement from CBRE, Inc. on behalf of commercial property investors whose funds were embezzled by a third party while CBRE was managing the properties.
- Assisted commercial real estate broker in securing lease commission in connection with opening of world-class South Beach eatery
- Represent commercial landlord owning $265 million portfolio, consisting of 30 properties, totaling 242,000 square feet in Naples, Florida in all types and aspects of commercial landlord-tenant litigation
- Advise international banks and counsel with respect to interrelation between foreclosure and UCC non-foreclosure remedies for multilayered, dual collateral loan agreements
