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Atlas Restaurant Group was projected to generate $85 million of business coming in 2020. Not surprisingly, the novel coronavirus ruined those plans.
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The NY Court of Appeals Provides Important Guidance for Lease Surrender Agreements
By Bruce H. Lederman
At a time when the COVID-19 crisis is causing an unprecedented number of lease defaults, a recent NY Court of Appeals decision provides both guidance and warnings to attorneys asked to negotiate and litigate leasehold surrender agreements.
Extra-Judicial Evictions of Commercial Tenants During COVID-19
By Adam Leitman Bailey and John M. Desiderio
This article addresses and updates the law on the self-help remedy that enables commercial landlords to regain possession of leased premises from tenants in material breach of one or more lease covenants.
‘Frustration’ and ‘Impossibility’: Viable Defenses Amid the Pandemic?
By Warren A. Estis and Alexander Lycoyannis
As the COVID-19 pandemic and its accompanying economic fallout continue to unfold, commercial tenants have increasingly come to rely on the common law doctrines of impossibility of performance and frustration of purpose as defenses to the nonpayment of rent.
Four Class Actions Allege Rent Overcharge Chicanery
By Lucas Ferrara
On Oct. 29, 2020, a Manhattan real-estate firm filed four separate class-action lawsuits highlighting three different maneuvers landlords used to evade the requirements of a tax-abatement program.