Commercial Landlord / Tenant

OVERVIEW

Our Real Estate practice team negotiates and documents lease transactions of all kinds.

We represent clients whose interests span all facets and types of commercial real estate lease and commercial landlord tenant disputes, from retail and office lease issues to industrial and ground leases as well as shopping center leases.

In our counsel to clients throughout California, we handle leases and disputes on behalf of both landlords and tenants. Lease disputes often result in transaction workouts between landlords and tenants, and our litigators and real estate transaction attorneys negotiate and document leasing transactions and workouts that are valued for their creativity and practicality.

Landlords and tenants appreciate our perspective on likely outcomes as well as the candid advice we offer to reduce risks and protect their interest.

Representative matters

Obtained judgment for commercial landlord against tenant after unlawful detainer trial in Los Angeles Superior Court and successfully enforced judgment.
Obtained favorable settlement of complaint alleging numerous violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) filed in the U.S. District Court for Central District of California against restaurant and property owner in La Cañada, California.
Achieved $1.2 million dollar judgment in lessor’s favor in a breach of commercial lease, breach of lease covenants, and waste action.
Represent several large commercial property owners whose portfolios include shopping centers, malls and strip centers. Representation involves negotiating and renegotiating lease terms, and in bringing suit to evict tenants who are in default of various provisions of their leases.
Represent tenants and landlords in lease disputes, including claimed violations of use restrictions and covenants and alleged improper rent, CAM charges, and other financial claims.
Guided landlord in the negotiation of a long-term lease of an industrial property to be used as a charter school.
Represented shopping center owner against national grocery company who vacated anchor tenant space, leaving it vacant, in favor of new shopping center down the street (the anchor tenant had gone “aggressively dark”). Sued for breach of lease (based on percentage of rent) and for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing as a result of the tenant’s decision to leave the anchor tenant space vacant so as to prevent competition at its new location, and tenant’s ongoing refusal to allow landlord client to cancel the lease and find a new anchor tenant. After defeating tenant’s motion for summary judgment, obtained favorable settlement where anchor tenant paid client $1 million and terminated the lease, freeing client to re-tenant the anchor tenant space.
Represented Fortune 500 national retailer in its efforts to resist efforts by landlord to break extremely valuable lease. Prevented landlord from breaking the lease.