Despite the structural failure at a prominent project, momentum for office-to-residential conversions in New York City is continuing to build, and attorneys say they have not noticed clients shying away from such projects.
New York City is having the strongest Class A office leasing year this century, one of Weil's real estate leaders told Law360 Real Estate Authority in a recent interview.
Tighter enforcement and reporting are needed to ensure that the building inspection mandates Florida added to its condominium law after a deadly 2021 building collapse deliver on their intent, attorneys and other observers said after reviewing data released last month by the state.
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Attorneys at Simpson Thacher review highlights from the annual report of the Committee on Foreign Investment in th... (more story)
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A recent California appellate ruling in Quinn v. Coulton makes clear that property owners pursuing lateral support... (more story)
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Coordinated Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Federal Reserve proposals to raise the 1970s-era cap for bank exec... (more story)
A pair of real estate investment trusts have sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in North Dakota federal court, seeking to force the handover of $4.8 million that they allege they are owed as the ... (more story)
Edd Hampson of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advised Blackstone Group on a series of refinancings for its iQ student housing platform, including a £2.6 billion refinancing in August 2024 involving an 11‑bank ... (more story)
The FIFA World Cup boosted second-quarter results for hotels, partly offsetting headwinds from the Middle East conflict, according to several industry leaders who recently reported their quarterly earnings.
Allison G. Geewax of Smith Currie Oles LLP represented a small business that successfully protested the federal government excluding it from the award pool for a contract she said was estimated to be worth up ... (more story)
After overseeing Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP's expansion into New York City, California and Hawaii, co-managing partner Michael Scott is setting his sights on extending the firm's footprint into Florida within... (more story)
Landlords and tenants at restaurant properties are increasingly looking to joint ventures to share in both the risks and rewards, while restaurants are also increasingly popping up in mixed-use residential pro... (more story)
Proctor & Gamble paid $99.3 million to buy back a waterfront Boston site sold to Breakthrough Properties in 2021 after the developer secured approval to build a nearly $1 billion campus for razor maker Gillett... (more story)
Machine Investment Group LP, advised by Kirkland & Ellis LLP, has capped its second fund targeting distressed real estate opportunities at $350 million, the investment firm announced Wednesday.
The Eleventh Circuit ruled Monday that a Florida county court clerk violated the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments by taking funds deposited in a court registry as part of an eviction proceeding, because the cle... (more story)
New York City will be in contempt of court if it continues with the rollout of its tax on high-value second homes that a judge temporarily paused, an attorney for homeowners challenging the tax said, arguing t... (more story)
Insurers urged a Colorado federal court to deny a real estate investment trust's bid for a pretrial win in a dispute over coverage for antitrust claims against landlords accused of using RealPage Inc.'s softwa... (more story)
A Florida federal judge on Tuesday declined to grant the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's request to unseal court-appointed monitor reports of a private equity firm accused of fraud in a $1 billion fu... (more story)
A proposed class of consumers accused property management company Cambridge Management Inc. on Tuesday of failing to protect their personally identifiable information from hackers who breached the company's systems.
The rollout of New York City's pied-à-terre tax, which affects high-value second homes in the city, was slammed by City Council members and property owners at a committee hearing Tuesday amid an ongoing legal ... (more story)
Most of law school trial advocacy is geared toward the sprint of trying a short case, but beyond managing a cross-examination or closing argument, effectively handling the marathon of a lengthy trial requires ... (more story)
The U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday said it's moving ahead with a plan to repeal a decades-old rule that has protected tens of millions of acres of national forest from road building and logging, asserting it h... (more story)
OpenAI said it will take a 20-year lease at a planned data center campus being built by Nvidia and SoftBank on a Cold War-era nuclear site in central Ohio, in a project advised by Latham & Watkins LLP and Kirk... (more story)