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Law Firms Increasingly Opting for Relocations Rather than Renewals
Law firms are increasingly opting for relocations rather than renewals, as firms look to sell talent on their unique identity and flexible approach to work.
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Options for Commercial Property Owners With Distressed Assets
Cyclical challenges in the economy are nothing new, and 2022 is shaping up to be that kind of year for business owners nationwide. This is likely to result in a greater need for the services of bankruptcy attorneys as business owners face a mounting wave of distressed financial assets.
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Effects of Inflation on Commercial Real Estate
While growth of the job market and the economy are the most important factors affecting commercial real estate, the emergence of historic rising inflation has its effects as well.
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Fifth Circuit Ruling Gives Commercial Lessees Likely Protection In Bankruptcy Court Free and Clear Asset Sales
The Fifth Circuit signaled that it would not approve in later cases a bankruptcy court asset sale of real property that summarily cuts off the rights of the debtor's lessees.
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PA Ruling Shows Power of Obtaining Mechanic's Lien
In Pennsylvania, if a contractor is not paid for repairs or improvements made to real estate, the contractor can either take the traditional path of litigation and sue the property owner by filing a complaint under contractual or equitable theories or file for a mechanics' lien that clouds title to the real estate.
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7 Concerns for Commercial Real Estate Investors In a Volatile Market
It appears that the CRE industry is entering a period of high volatility with the Fed promising to raise interest rates, soaring inflation, the war in…
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How the SEC's ESG Disclosure Rules Might Effect Commercial Real Estate
After years of discussions and hints, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) finally released its proposed environmental disclosure rule for public company reporting. Getting the information and making the determinations will be a challenge for any sized company that comes under the SEC's purview. But there are significant questions about who is responsible for gathering and reporting information from commercial real estate facilities.
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Don't Forget to Read Those Condominium Documents
No matter how carefully you reviewed the lease, if you don't read the condominium documents you could be missing critical information relating to the unit and the building that is available only by reviewing the condominium documents.
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Opportunities and Best Practices for Lenders In Financing Distressed Business Acquisitions
As distressed M&A activity inevitably heats up, strategic buyers and equity sponsors that have sat on the sideline for an extended period of time will likely have expanding interest in purchasing viable, but over-leveraged, businesses that are being sold out of bankruptcy.
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Second Circuit Narrows Borrower's Ability to Pursue Class Damages In Federal Court for Failure to Timely Record Mortgage Satisfactions
The decision in Maddox v. Bank of N.Y. Mellon Trust certainly affords safeguards to lenders and mortgagees in that Maddox now narrows a borrower's ability to pursue class damages in federal court for lenders and services for failure to timely record mortgage satisfactions.
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