Commercial

  • May 14, 2025

    Questions Swirl About EB-5 As 'Gold Card' Looms

    With the Trump administration's proposed $5 million "Gold Card" visa program raising questions about the future of the existing EB-5 investment visa program, an executive at independent fund administrator JTC Group offers insights on where the program may be heading and what investors should know.

  • May 14, 2025

    Religion Shapes Skylines, Real Estate Investments

    Shifting demographics of religious observation, coupled with an affordable housing shortage and the demands of maintaining aging facilities, have led many faith-based organizations to consider how to monetize their land. Here, attorneys specializing in these deals discuss the unique challenges of balancing business requirements with religious priorities.

  • May 14, 2025

    Interior Policy Aims To Shorten Oil And Gas Leasing Reviews

    The U.S. Department of the Interior has unveiled a new policy that attempts to speed up oil and gas leasing on public lands by cutting the amount of time spent reviewing the suitability of potential leasing areas.

  • May 14, 2025

    Jeffer Mangels Hospitality Leader On Tariffs, Travel Demand

    The U.S. hotel sector is closely watching a drop in international travel during the initial months of President Donald Trump's administration, and that along with tariffs are top of mind for hotel owners and developers, one of Jeffer Mangels' hospitality leaders recently told Law360.

  • May 14, 2025

    Hotel Operator Can Sell 188-Unit Apartment Complex In Ch. 11

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved California hotel operator MOM CA Investco LLC's request to sell a 188-unit apartment complex in Redlands, California, despite an objection from creditors who have accused the company of fraud.

  • May 14, 2025

    Ore. Senate Panel OKs Renewed Historic Preservation Credit

    Oregon would reauthorize a historic preservation tax credit and limit it to commercial properties under legislation advanced by a state Senate panel.

  • May 14, 2025

    McGlinchey Stafford Adds Real Estate, Financial Services Pro

    McGlinchey Stafford PLLC announced that the firm has added a real estate and financial services pro to its financial services litigation practice, who joins the firm following a five-year stint in private practice.

  • May 14, 2025

    Carlton Fields Adds Atlanta M&A Pro From Hartman Simons

    Carlton Fields has bolstered its business transactions practice with a new shareholder in Atlanta who was previously with Hartman Simons & Wood LLP.

  • May 14, 2025

    Kayne Anderson Secures $2.25B For 3rd Energy Fund

    Alternative investment manager Kayne Anderson has closed its third energy income fund above target with $2.25 billion in total commitments.

  • May 14, 2025

    Biotech Firm Verax Tells Court Eviction Could End Company

    Biotech company Verax Biomedical Inc. has said it faces the prospect of going out of business unless a Massachusetts judge agrees to block its landlord from proceeding with an eviction, at least through the end of its current lease.

  • May 14, 2025

    Ore. Riverfront Parcel Overvalued, State Tax Court Finds

    An Oregon riverfront property was overvalued by $12,000 in tax year 2022-23, the Oregon Tax Court said, lowering its real market value while rejecting the owner's arguments for a much deeper cut. 

  • May 14, 2025

    Minn. School Can Skip Accrediting For Tax Break, Court Says

    A Minnesota school seeking a property tax exemption as an educational entity is not required to show accreditation by an outside organization to qualify for the break, the state tax court said.

  • May 14, 2025

    NYC Real Estate Week In Review

    Fried Frank, Gibson Dunn and Kramer Levin are among the law firms that handled the largest New York City real estate deals that became public last week, a list topped by Amazon and Blackstone purchases in Manhattan.

  • May 14, 2025

    Kirkland-Led Northleaf Clinches $2.6B Infrastructure Fund

    Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised Northleaf Capital Partners has wrapped its fourth infrastructure fund above target after securing $2.6 billion of investor commitments, marking the firm's largest infrastructure fund to date.

  • May 13, 2025

    Ski Resort Owner Offers Alternative Fixes After Antitrust Loss

    A New York ski resort operator is offering alternative remedies for a state court to consider after it found the owner violated antitrust law by acquiring a rival ski operation and shutting it down, despite a call from enforcers for a sale of the property to another operator.

  • May 13, 2025

    State Farm's Emergency Rate Hike Request Approved In Calif.

    California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced Tuesday that he had adopted a judge's recommendation to approve State Farm General Insurance Co.'s request for an emergency rate increase for property insurance in the state, following January wildfires that have already cost California insurers $12.1 billion.

  • May 13, 2025

    K&L Gates Adds Ex-Taylor Wessing Atty In London

    K&L Gates LLP announced Tuesday that it has hired a former Taylor Wessing LLP attorney as a partner on its finance team in London.

  • May 13, 2025

    Drugmaker Roche, Affiliate Plan $1.3B Spend In NC, Ind.

    Biotechnology company Genentech will spend $700 million to build a new weight loss drug manufacturing plant near Raleigh, North Carolina, while parent company Roche Group announced a separate $550 million facility in Indianapolis following a commitment last month to pour billions into U.S. manufacturing

  • May 13, 2025

    BCLP Adds 4 Atty Litigation Team From Lewis Brisbois

    Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP announced that the firm has hired a four-member litigation team from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, who will join the firm's class action and mass torts practice group.

  • May 12, 2025

    Dentons Hires Veteran Real Estate Partner In NYC

    Dentons has hired a veteran real estate attorney, who has represented clients such as developers and property owners in real estate projects for more than a decade, for a partner role in one of its New York offices, the firm announced Monday.

  • May 12, 2025

    9th Circ. Questions Vegas Casino Room Rate Claims

    A skeptical Ninth Circuit panel had questions Monday for guests accusing Las Vegas casino-hotel operators of using the same software to inflate room rates about what they need to show for their algorithmic pricing claims to survive.

  • May 12, 2025

    Kraft Heinz, IPS Head To Trial Over $12.5M Project Dispute

    Neither Kraft Heinz Co. nor contractor Industrial Power Systems Inc. can avoid continuing toward a trial in their dispute over cost and time overruns on a $12.5 million project to upgrade an Ohio production facility, after a federal judge denied both sides' motions for summary judgment Monday.

  • May 12, 2025

    Calif. Tribe Can't Halt Decision On $700M Casino, Feds Say

    The U.S. Department of the Interior has urged a D.C. federal court to reject a California tribe's bid to temporarily block the department's decision to rescind gambling eligibility for a $700 million casino project.

  • May 12, 2025

    Real Estate Attorney On Going In-House And Back Again

    For a real estate attorney, Nick Buehner has had an unconventional career path, from flipping houses with his father in high school to landing an in-house role at a prominent developer, where he worked, briefly, on a dazzling Austin skyscraper that now houses Google.

  • May 12, 2025

    Will Justices Finally Rein In Universal Injunctions?

    The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.

Expert Analysis

  • Illinois Trump Tower Ruling Illuminates Insurance 'Occurrence'

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    In Continental Casualty v. 401 North Wabash Venture, an Illinois appellate court found that Trump Tower was not entitled to insurance coverage for operating its HVAC system without a permit, helping to further define a widely litigated general liability insurance issue — what constitutes an "occurrence," say Robert Tugander and Greg Mann at Rivkin Radler.

  • A Bird's Eye View Of NYC's New Parapet Inspection Law

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    Building owners in New York City should be ready for the city's new parapet inspection requirements going into effect in January, which will likely necessitate additional construction work for countless buildings not previously subject to formal inspections, says Benjamin Fox Tracy at Braverman Greenspun.

  • How Fla. Bankruptcy Ruling May Affect Equity Owners

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    A Florida bankruptcy court’s recent ruling in Vital Pharmaceuticals — which rejected the Third Circuit’s Majestic Star decision that determined a bankrupt corporation’s flow-through status was not protected by the automatic stay — may significantly affect how equity owners can mitigate the impact of flow-through structures in bankruptcy, say Eric Behl-Remijan and Natasha Hwangpo at Ropes & Gray.

  • Calif. Ruling May Open Bankruptcy Trustees To Tort Liability

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    In Martin v. Gladstone, a recent California appellate court decision, the application of tort concepts to bankruptcy trustees could pose a new concern for trustees and federal receivers when controlling and maintaining commercial property, says Jarrett Osborne-Revis at Buchalter.

  • Considerations For Navigating Mixed-Use Developments

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    As mixed-use developments continue to rise in popularity, developers considering this approach to urban planning must be aware of key considerations ranging from title and zoning laws to proper engagement with stakeholders, says Mehdi Sinaki at Michelman & Robinson.

  • 1st Tax Easement Convictions Will Likely Embolden DOJ, IRS

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    After recent convictions in the first criminal tax fraud trial over allegedly abusive syndicated conservation easements, the IRS and U.S. Department of Justice will likely pursue other promoters for similar alleged conspiracies — though one acquittal may help attorneys better evaluate their clients' exposure, say Bill Curtis and Lauren DeSantis-Then at Polsinelli.

  • Compliance Primer: Foreign Investment In US Real Property

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    The rise in foreign investment in U.S. real property, especially agricultural land, has led to increased national security concerns, meaning it’s important to understand reporting requirements under the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act and state-level statutes, and to monitor legislative proposals that could create more stringent reporting and review processes, say attorneys at K&L Gates.

  • How CRE Loans Would Shift Under New Bank Capital Rules

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    Attorneys at MoFo discuss how commercial real estate loans would fare under federal banking agencies' proposed changes to how large banks risk-weight loans, particularly how CRE loans are weighed based on the current standardized framework versus the proposed expanded approach.

  • Calif. GHG Disclosure Law Will Affect Companies Worldwide

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    California's Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act, which will require comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions disclosures from large companies operating in the state, will mean compliance challenges for a wide range of industries, nationally and globally, as the law's requirements will ultimately trickle out and down, say attorneys at Brownstein Hyatt.

  • What Retail Landlords Must Know About Permitted Transfers

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    As trying economic times require tenants to create options to cease their operations by transferring their lease obligations to other parties, retail landlords must give significant thought to how permitted transfers are drafted, and how parties are to be protected in the present and the future, says Scott Grossfeld at Cox Castle.

  • Proactive Measures While NY Foreclosure Law Is In Limbo

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    While questions about the scope and constitutionality of New York's Foreclosure Abuse Prevention Act might not be resolved by courts for years, lenders, borrowers and other interested parties can take action to protect their rights and potentially expedite appellate review, say Allison Schoenthal and Andrew Kim at Goodwin.

  • EB-5 Investment Period Clarification Raises More Questions

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    U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' recent clarifying guidance for EB-5 investors, specifying that the statutory investment period begins two years from the date of investment, raises as many questions as it answers given related agency requirements and investors' potential contractual obligations, says Daniel Lundy at Klasko Immigration Law Partners.

  • A Guide For Landlords Pivoting To Medical Office Buildings

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    The current commercial real estate landscape presents a unique opportunity for landlords, real estate developers and investors to accommodate the growing health care industry's need for office buildings, though proper navigation of complex regulations and leasing concerns is necessary, says Mehdi Sinaki at Michelman & Robinson.