Cohen Clair Lans Greifer Thorpe & Rottenstreich LLP is said to have renewed its lease for space in New York's Lipstick Building, PGIM Real Estate has reportedly bought a Trader Joe's-anchored Florida shopping center for $49.2 million with ...read more
The San Diego city council on Monday moved to put a redevelopment proposal for a soccer stadium at the Qualcomm Stadium site, the former home of the relocated Los Angeles Chargers, to a public vote next year, a move that could put a bid for a Major League ...read more
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that legislators ran afoul of constitutionally enshrined environmental protections as they used money from the leasing of public land for natural gas drilling — money that had been earmarked for conservation ...read more
Cassin & Cassin LLP represented First Republic Bank in connection with its $62 million loan for a hotel in Lower Manhattan, according to records made public in New York on Tuesday. ...read more
A New Jersey state appellate court ruled Monday that a lawyer can’t shake a breach of contract suit brought by a convicted former client, despite the fact that the client had previously sued another firm that also handled his mortgage fraud case ...read more
A bill recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives would provide clarity for the banking sector in an area lawyers say is murky, and with a better understanding of the regulations they face, banks would likely ramp up their offering of bridge ...read more
The Senate confirmed a key emergency official in President Donald Trump’s administration Tuesday, approving his nominee to lead the Federal Emergency Management Agency. ...read more
Supermarket Income REIT PLC is looking to raise as much as £200 million ($252.5 million) through an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange, according to an announcement from the U.K. firm on Tuesday. ...read more
Immediately following the U.S. Supreme Court's Escobar decision, it was unclear how defendants would be able to fend off implied false certification claims based on the Escobar standard. But the past year has shown that the heightened standard has ...read more
The ex-CEO of American Realty Capital Properties told his then-financial chief which line of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing to finagle so a key earnings metric would match the company’s investor guidance, the government’s ...read more
Justice Sonia Sotomayor discusses the one thing she hates seeing at oral arguments, why diversity matters on the federal bench, and her habit of embracing audience members at live talks, in the first of two articles based on an exclusive interview with ...read more
A dispute between Miami and a developer building a $400 million mixed-use luxury project on city-owned property is heating up, with the developer filing a lawsuit accusing the City Commission of inventing a default to justify breaking their long-standing ...read more
Illinois village residents who alleged that Shell Oil and other operators of the Wood River Refinery let hazardous benzene contaminate their properties and water supply filed a motion in Illinois federal court Friday seeking preliminary approval of a ...read more
The New Jersey Senate on Monday approved legislation that would tax short-term online rental accommodations such as Airbnb and FlipKey, sealing its passage in both of the state’s legislative chambers and placing it before Gov. Chris Christie to ...read more
The $1.6 billion Penn Station redevelopment project is set to move forward as developers Related Companies and Vornado Realty LP and construction firm Skanska AB finalized the financial arrangements of the deal, New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has announced ...read more
The Manhattan federal judge overseeing the billion-dollar real estate seizure effort targeting an Iran-linked charity warned Monday against cherry-picking quotes from the often-irresolute testimony of a noted Islamic economist who was the treasurer of ...read more
Whitestone REIT has secured an $80 million loan to fund the purchase of nearly 217,000 square feet of retail and office space and nearly 1.5 acres of land in Houston ready for development, Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP announced Monday. ...read more
A Texas appellate court on Friday affirmed dismissal of claims a Hunton & Williams LLP partner and one of the firm’s clients defrauded another client by persuading him to trade condominium interests worth $2 million for a stake in a startup ...read more
The Eighth Circuit on Friday revived a suit against CitiMortgage Inc. brought by a homeowner who paid thousands of dollars to save his house from foreclosure only to discover years later that the house’s title was never put back in his name. ...read more
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a request by an Oklahoma royalty owner to send back to state court a proposed class action accusing private equity energy firm Sheridan Production Co. LLC of failing to pay natural gas royalties. ...read more
An environmental group sued government trustees including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Alabama federal court on Friday, looking to stop the use of $58.5 million provided by BP for the Deepwater Horizon cleanup to construct a convention ...read more
A husband-and-wife pair of rental property owners can’t evade $15.3 million in tax liabilities and interest, or the foreclosure of tax liens on their properties, federal prosecutors told a Utah federal judge Friday, blasting assertions that the husband ...read more
The Ninth Circuit on Friday upheld the U.S. Forest Service’s denial of a permit for the construction and operation of a ski resort outside Missoula, Montana, saying the lower court correctly determined that the agency did not abuse its power. ...read more
Forestar Group Inc. has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action in Delaware federal court alleging the company was undervalued by Starwood Capital Group’s proposed $605 million buyout and that the board erred by not seizing on a competing ...read more
A New Jersey federal judge has tossed Jersey City’s labor agreement requirements for tax-abated private building projects, writing that the rules are void for interfering with federal labor law. ...read more