Commercial
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September 05, 2025
Real Estate Atty Joins Burr & Forman From Morris Manning
Burr & Forman LLP has announced that an experienced real estate attorney has come aboard the firm's Atlanta office as a partner after over two decades with Morris Manning & Martin LLP, which is set to merge with Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP at the end of the year.
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September 05, 2025
4 Firms Guide Hangar Developer's $200M Facility
Four firms advised JPMorgan Chase Bank NA's $200 million tax-exempt warehouse drawdown committed bank facility provided to Sky Harbour Group Corp., which the aviation infrastructure company said Friday will finance its next round of projects.
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September 05, 2025
Greenberg Traurig Guides Student Housing Co.'s US Growth
Student housing provider Yugo has acquired student housing property manager and real estate investment manager Campus Advantage in a deal guided by Greenberg Traurig LLP, Yugo announced this week.
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September 04, 2025
7th Circ. Mulls Ex-Cushman & Wakefield GC's Defamation Row
A Seventh Circuit panel on Thursday asked an attorney for Cushman & Wakefield's former general counsel, who has alleged a Law.com article about his departure was defamatory, if there was any reasonable interpretation of the story other than his claim that it linked his termination with his handling of the firm's involvement in an investigation into President Donald Trump.
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September 04, 2025
Yale Hospital's Info Request Upheld In $435M Property Suit
Three third-party hospital real estate holding companies and their corporate parent cannot challenge a decision requiring them to give records to Yale New Haven Health Services Corp. for its $435 million asset sale dispute with bankrupt Prospect Medical Holdings Inc., a Connecticut appeals court has ruled.
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September 04, 2025
Ulta Sues To Exit Namdar-Owned Connecticut Mall
Beauty retailer Ulta has filed suit against the operator of a mall in Trumbull, Connecticut, saying its 10-year lease should be terminated after a failure of the heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system has forced the outlet to close for two months and counting.
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September 04, 2025
NY AG Appeals Toss Of $500M Trump Fine In Civil Fraud Case
New York's attorney general said Thursday she will challenge an appeals court's decision to throw out what it called an "excessive" $489 million civil fraud penalty against President Donald Trump and his sons, his companies, and executives of his companies.
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September 04, 2025
7th Circ. Doubts Investor's Priority To $2.5M In Fraud Funds
Seventh Circuit judges seemed skeptical Thursday of a real estate banking firm's argument it should have been prioritized over other investors with respect to proceeds from the liquidation of assets related to an alleged $135 million Ponzi scheme, pointing to evidence the firm noticed red flags but dropped the ball in investigating.
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September 04, 2025
Cushman Told Hold Vote On Cleary-Advised Bermuda Move
Commercial broker Cushman & Wakefield said Thursday that it will hold a shareholder vote in October on a plan to change its place of incorporation from England to Bermuda.
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September 04, 2025
REIT Closes $300M Farmland Fund With Institutional Backing
Goldcrest Farm Trust announced Thursday that it has closed its third fund targeting U.S. farmland acquisitions with more than $300 million in commitments.
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September 04, 2025
South Korean Biotech Co. Plans $223M Ga. Magnet Factory
South Korean biotechnology company JS Link's American subsidiary will invest $223 million to build a 130,000-square-foot, rare-earth, permanent magnet manufacturing factory in Columbus, Georgia, that's expected to bring over 520 jobs to the state's Muscogee County.
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September 04, 2025
Feds Sue SoCal Edison Over Eaton, Fairview Wildfires
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday sued Southern California Edison, seeking a combined $77 million in a pair of lawsuits alleging that its negligence in maintaining its infrastructure caused the catastrophic Eaton wildfire in January and devastating Fairview fire in 2022.
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September 04, 2025
Wash. Justices To Review Voter Measure Backing Natural Gas
The Washington State Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on a dispute over a law approved by voters that prevents local governments and code officials in the state from passing rules restricting or discouraging the use of natural gas.
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September 03, 2025
DOI Casino Approval Overturned For Ignoring Tribal Input
The U.S. Department of the Interior went beyond its authority and failed to properly consult with another local tribe when it approved the Koi Nation's plan to build a casino on newly acquired trust land, a California federal judge has ruled.
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September 03, 2025
Real Estate Counsel Rejoins Ropes & Gray In New York
Ropes & Gray LLP said an alumnus has rejoined the firm's New York office as counsel in its real estate investments and transactions group from GIC Pte. Ltd., a Singaporean sovereign wealth fund.
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September 03, 2025
Data Center Securitization To Near $10B In 2025, Moody's Says
Moody's Ratings said in a Wednesday report that securitizations for data centers are major factors driving growth at a time when private credit markets are expanding their market reach.
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September 03, 2025
SilverRock Gets More Time To Control Its Ch. 11 Case
Bankrupt California resort developer SilverRock Development received approval to extend the exclusive control window in its Chapter 11 case for four months, with a Delaware judge saying the debtor has made enough progress in the complex proceedings to warrant the extension.
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September 03, 2025
Akin Opens In Chicago With 4 New Partners
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP has opened the doors to its newest office, in Chicago, the firm announced Wednesday, with a quartet of partners who joined the firm this spring from Mayer Brown LLP.
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September 03, 2025
Lifestyle Office Goes Beyond Ping Pong Tables
Lifestyle offices, which are easily reachable by multimodal transit and surrounded by around-the-clock amenities like entertainment options, green space, retail offerings and luxury housing, command leasing and pricing premiums over comparable traditional office buildings, according to an industry report.
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September 03, 2025
Stradley Ronon Adds Ex-Brandywine Atty To Philly Office
An attorney specializing in advising clients on real estate transactions has returned to private practice after nearly five years as an in-house attorney, joining Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young LLP in its Philadelphia office.
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September 03, 2025
Real Estate Fund Sponsors Loosen Reins In Sluggish Market
While transaction activity in the real estate fundraising market picked up in the first half of the year, fund managers have been giving more control to some of their biggest investors as a way to help alleviate their uncertainties over liquidity and U.S. tariff policies.
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September 03, 2025
Wells Fargo Urges Court To OK Receiver's $17M Hotel Sale
Wells Fargo pressed a Maryland federal court on Wednesday to approve a receiver's $17 million sale of two Baltimore hotels currently owned by borrowers it says defaulted on a $52.4 million loan, for which it has initiated a lawsuit.
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September 03, 2025
Norway Sovereign Wealth Fund Pays $543M For NYC Property
Norwegian sovereign wealth fund Norges Bank Investment Management will pay $542.6 million for a 95% interest in a more than 1-million-square-foot Manhattan office building in the borough's Midtown neighborhood, the fund announced.
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September 03, 2025
Taconic Sells NYC Office Property At $164M Discount
Frenkel Hershkowitz & Shafran LLP guided Taconic Partners' sale of a New York City office property to an affiliate of David Werner Real Estate Investments for $105 million, a steep discount from the property's $269 million price tag when the property last traded hands in 2018.
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September 03, 2025
2 Firms Advise $300M Investment In Shopping Center REIT
Charleston, South Carolina-based retail owner Bond Street Real Estate Investment Trust said Wednesday that it has attracted a $300 million commitment from private equity firm Conversant Capital in an investment advised by Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP and Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP.
Expert Analysis
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How 2025 Is Shaping The Future Of Bank Mergers So Far
Whether the long-anticipated great wave of consolidation in the U.S. banking industry will finally arrive in 2025 remains to be seen, but the conditions for bank mergers are more favorable now than they have been in years, say attorneys at Skadden.
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Why NY May Want To Reconsider Its LLC Transparency Law
Against the backdrop of the myriad challenges to the federal Corporate Transparency Act, it may be prudent for New York to reconsider its adoption of the LLC Transparency Act, since it's unclear whether the Empire State's "baby-CTA" statute is still necessary or was passed prematurely, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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Dewberry Ruling Is A Wakeup Call For Trademark Owners
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dewberry v. Dewberry hones in on the question of how a defendant's affiliates' profits should be treated under the Lanham Act, and should remind trademark litigants and practitioners that issues involving monetary relief should be treated seriously, say attorneys at Finnegan.
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How GSA Lease Clauses May Affect DOGE Terminations
The Department of Government Efficiency has begun to cut the U.S. General Services Administration's enormous real estate portfolio, but some standard lease clauses include limits helpful to landlords that may slow progress toward the administration's cost-cutting goals, say attorneys at Pillsbury.
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What SDNY Judge Can And Can't Do In Adams Case
The federal judge in the Southern District of New York overseeing the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams deferred making a decision on the government's motion to dismiss the indictment, and while he does have limited authority to deny the motion, that would ultimately be a futile gesture, says Ethan Greenberg at Anderson Kill.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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Corp. Transparency Act's Future Under Treasury's Bessent
The Corporate Transparency Act’s ultimate fate faced uncertain terms at the end of 2024, but new U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's statements and actions so far demonstrate that he does not intend to ignore the law, though he may attempt to make modifications, say attorneys at Taylor English.
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Nippon Order Tests Gov't Control Over Foreign Investments
The U.S. government is primarily interested in restraining foreign transactions involving countries of concern, but former President Joe Biden’s January order blocking the merger of Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel shows that all foreign direct investments are under the federal government’s microscope, say attorneys at Blank Rome.
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A Look At A Possible Corporate Transparency Act Exemption
Attorneys at Kirkland offer a deep dive into the application of the Corporate Transparency Act's reporting requirements specifically to U.S.-domiciled co-issuers in typical collateralized loan obligation transactions, and consider whether such issuers may be able to assert an exemption from the CTA's reporting requirements.
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As EPA Backs Down, Expect Enviros To Step Up Citizen Suits
As President Donald Trump's U.S. Environmental Protection Agency draws down federal enforcement efforts, environmental groups will step into the void and file citizen suits — so companies should focus on compliance efforts, stay savvy about emerging analytical and monitoring methods, and maintain good relations with neighbors, say attorneys at Beveridge & Diamond.
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Emphasize Social Spaces During RE Project Public Review
As Boston continues to work through revisions to its public review process for real estate projects, developers attempting to balance impact mitigation and community improvements may benefit from emphasizing the ways in which development plans can facilitate open social exchange, says David Linhart at Goulston & Storrs.
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What Contractors Can Do To Address Material Cost Increases
In light of the Trump administration's plans to increase tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, construction industry players should proactively employ legal strategies to mitigate the impacts that price increases and uncertainty may have on projects, says Brenda Radmacher at Seyfarth Shaw.
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Reg Waiver Eases Calif. Rebuilding, But Proceed With Care
California Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order suspending some environmental review and permitting requirements for the reconstruction of homes and businesses damaged by recent wildfires may streamline rebuilding efforts, but will require careful navigation of the evolving regulatory landscape, says Gregory Berlin at Alston & Bird.