As the COVID-19 or novel coronavirus pandemic continues, landlords have increasingly received communication from distressed tenants requesting rent relief and, in some circumstances, lease ...

Commercial tenants should resist the temptation to treat SNDAs as “mere forms” and instead carefully review and negotiate them to protect their interests. Three fundamental agreements are (or ...

To address such circumstances, commercial tenants and landlords should review their leases to determine if there are any contractual provisions that excuse the nonpayment of rent. Most of the time, ...