Sep 16, 2024 Navigating Lender Liability Complexities & Minimizing Risk By Zev Gewurz Jaclyn Grodin Charles Jacob III Douglas Rosner Adam Safer Eric Seltzer +3 more... Show less As lenders and borrowers try to get creative in working through ongoing distress in the real estate market, especially in certain asset...
Nov 27, 2024 Local Law 97 Compliance With Affordable Units By George Evans Hara Perkins Andrew Shaw New York City enacted Local Law 97 in 2019 to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by buildings throughout the City.1 The law...
Nov 23, 2024 Democratizing development without losing sight of the social impact of economic growth By David Linhart As addressed in our prior advisory, Boston is reforming the impact review process in Article 80 of its zoning code. This process is...
Nov 22, 2024 Governor Healy Enacts Permit Extension Act of 2024: Boosting Development and Protecting Approvals By Christian Regnier Kevin Gaughan Peter Kaplan On November 20, 2024, Governor Healy signed the Permit Extension Act of 2024 (the “PEA”) into law as part of the Mass Leads Act....
Nov 19, 2024 Goulston & Storrs Real Estate Attys Talk Distress Playbook By Zev Gewurz Frank Ditta As commercial real estate distress continues to play out, attorneys are seeing lenders adopt new strategies to save or reduce their...
Nov 18, 2024 Prenuptial Agreement Held to Be Valid Waiver Of Spouse’s Statutory Right of Election By Charles Jacob III Jennifer Mikels Molly Quinn Gary Ronan +1 more... Show less Generally, under New York EPTL 5-1.1-A, if a decedent is survived by a spouse, a right of election is given to the surviving spouse to...
Nov 14, 2024 ICSC + U.S. Law ‘24: The Next Gen Perspective By Andrew Bensson Patrick Gallagher John Rothman The 54th annual ICSC + U.S. Law Conference recently convened in Orlando, gathering attorneys and legal professionals from across the real...
Nov 13, 2024 The CTA Filing Deadline is Approaching. Is Your BOIR Filed Yet? By Vaishali Goyal Ling Kong Gary Ronan The clock is ticking—just 49 days remain until the one-year filing deadline for the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)! Entities...
Nov 08, 2024 Navigating HUD Programs: A Practitioners' Guide to the Labyrinth By Hara Perkins Attorney Hara Perkins co-authored Chapter 1, titled “FHA Multifamily Programs: General Overview and Recent Developments,” in Navigating...
Oct 30, 2024 Commercial foreclosures rise as lenders approach 'inflection point' By Douglas Rosner Commercial foreclosure activity across the nation crept up last month despite more positive sentiments across the commercial real estate...
Oct 30, 2024 Mitigate Risks of Lender Liability Claims When Reworking Troubled CRE Loans By Charles Jacob III I recently had the opportunity to present during a Strafford CLE webinar on strategies for mitigating the risks of lender liability...
Oct 24, 2024 Further Updates to the Massachusetts Estate Tax By James Casiello Matthew Hillery John Ramsey Andrew Rothstein Kerry Spindler +2 more... Show less On October 4, 2023, the Massachusetts estate tax was updated for the first time in seventeen years (the “2023 Act”). Primarily, the 2023...
Oct 15, 2024 Political Speech in the Workplace: Legal Considerations for Employers By Carla Reeves As the 2024 U.S. presidential election approaches, many employers are bracing themselves for a wave of political discussions—and...
Oct 15, 2024 Legal Industry Adaption in the Face of Disruption - SOLID East 2024 Takeaways By Nordo Nissi The recent SOLID (Summit on Legal Innovation and Disruption) East 2024 Event brought together legal innovators and thought leaders to...
Oct 02, 2024 Proposed Action Plan for Article 80 Modernization By Matthew Kiefer After an 18-month study process, the Boston Planning Department has released an Action Plan proposing strategies to modernize Boston’s...
Sep 25, 2024 Different Sectors, Same Page By George Evans I recently attended the IMN Distressed CRE Forum in New York, alongside my colleagues Brian Cohen, Zev Gewurz and Doug Rosner. It was...
Sep 20, 2024 Reminder To Draft Purchase And Sale Agreements With Care By Mariana Korsunsky Kevin O'Flaherty Gary Ronan John White III +1 more... Show less Somerville Off. Assocs. Ltd. P'ship v. Cresset Dev., LLC, 104 Mass. App. Ct. 1108 (2024). In Somerville Office Associates Limited...