Commercial Real Estate Disputes
The firm represents property owners, investors, landlords, tenants, and operating businesses in disputes involving commercial leases, construction and repair obligations, management agreements, refinancing transactions, guaranties, SPE covenants, and borrower authority.
These matters often require both litigation analysis and familiarity with the underlying transaction documents. The firm reviews the lease, loan file, entity records, and property economics together so that the legal strategy accounts for the client’s continuing use, ownership, financing, or disposition of the property.
A commercial property dispute may need to be resolved without ending the underlying lease, loan, ownership arrangement, or operating relationship. Settlement documents should address what happens after the dispute as carefully as the dispute itself.
Services
- 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
Represented 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
Document 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
Our 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. A separateness default may affect recourse or other lender remedies, but the analysis depends on the covenants, the alleged conduct, any cure rights, and the surrounding loan documents.
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.