Commercial Real Estate Disputes
Real estate disputes are document disputes with an address. The firm litigates them with the same instruments-first approach it uses to draft: commercial lease disputes and landlord-tenant litigation, construction-related claims, and the finance-adjacent conflicts most litigators can’t read — disputes arising from refinance transactions, management agreements, operating agreement amendments, SPE compliance, and borrower authority challenges. When the fight is about what the loan documents or the lease actually require, it helps to be represented by counsel who negotiates those documents for a living.
Services
SIX ITEMS- Commercial lease disputes and landlord-tenant litigation
- Construction-related claims
- Disputes arising from refinance transactions and lender compliance matters
- Management agreement and property-operation conflicts
- Operating agreement, SPE compliance, and borrower authority disputes
- Guaranty enforcement in real estate transactions
Representative Experience
THREE MATTERSRepresented clients in commercial lease disputes, landlord-tenant litigation, and construction-related claims.
Represented property owners and investors in disputes arising from refinance transactions, management agreements, and lender compliance matters.
Advised on disputes involving operating agreement amendments, SPE compliance, and borrower authority challenges.
Representative matters. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Process
FOUR STEPSDocument assessment
The lease, loan file, or agreement read the way the court will read it.
Position strategy
Cure, leverage, negotiate, or litigate, with the property’s economics in view.
Prosecution or defense
Pleadings and motions built on the instruments.
Resolution
Outcomes documented so the property can transact again.
FAQs
THREE QUESTIONSOur tenant stopped paying but won’t leave. What are the options?
Texas gives commercial landlords meaningful remedies, but the lease controls the sequence — and missteps in notice or lockout create counterclaims. The lease read comes first.
The lender says we breached the SPE covenants. Is that serious?
Potentially very — separateness defaults can trigger recourse. It is also frequently contestable on the documents. This intersection is a specific strength of the practice.
We’re mid-dispute but want to keep the relationship. Possible?
Often the right goal — landlord-tenant and borrower-lender relationships usually outlive the dispute, and strategy is calibrated accordingly.