Commercial Leasing

 

We represent landlords and tenants in leases for shopping centers, medical office, office, flex, warehouse, industrial and mixed-use properties, and in the ground leases underneath them.

 

Practice Contacts
David A. Katz · Zaheer Abbas

 

A lease is a long document that usually turns on a short list of provisions: the work agreement, the operating expense structure, what the tenant may assign, and what either party can do when the other stops performing. That is where we spend the time.

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Our services include

 

• Letters of intent and lease negotiation

• Ground leases and land unit leases

• Work agreements and delivery conditions

• Operating expense, CAM and tax provisions

• Renewals, expansions and amendments

• Subleases, assignments and change-of-control provisions

• Subordination, non-disturbance and attornment agreements

• Estoppel certificates

• Lease enforcement and default remedies

• Terminations, buyouts, workouts and restructurings

• Model home and sales office leases

• Industrial outdoor storage and yard leases

• Healthcare-platform leasing and multijurisdictional portfolio management

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Representative Matters

 

• Serves as commercial leasing counsel to a private equity-backed national healthcare platform with more than 110 locations across North America, advising on new market entry, expansion, leases, renewals, amendments and relocations.

• Advises an institutionally backed primary and urgent care platform on lease negotiations, amendments, assignments, tenant estoppels, portfolio restructuring and negotiated early terminations across multiple markets.

• Represented a private equity-backed healthcare provider in commercial leasing matters throughout the Washington, DC metropolitan area and the southeastern United States. The provider was subsequently acquired by a national health insurance organization.

• Serves as leasing counsel to a family-owned Maryland commercial landlord, negotiating more than 20 retail, office, flex and restaurant leases and related guaranties in Anne Arundel and surrounding counties.

• Represented the seller of a multi-tenant retail shopping center in Frederick County, Maryland, coordinating tenant estoppels, subordination matters and lease assignments through settlement.

• Coordinated simultaneous lease terminations at three healthcare locations in Maryland and Virginia as part of a multi-site operator’s portfolio consolidation.

• Represented a purchaser in the acquisition of a veterinary clinic property in New Jersey, including title and survey review and negotiation of the operating company’s lease delivered at closing.

To discuss a lease or a portfolio, get in touch.

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Individual attorney admissions vary. We provide services only as permitted by applicable law and work with locally admitted counsel where required.