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Samuelson Law, LLC

Hours Open:
Monday:
9 AM - 5 PM
Tuesday:
9 AM - 5 PM
Wednesday:
9 AM - 5 PM
Thursday:
9 AM - 5 PM
Friday:
9 AM - 5 PM
Saturday:
CLOSED
Sunday:
CLOSED
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Samuelson Law is a boutique law firm that focuses upon handling commercial real estate and technology transactions, bankruptcies, and related litigation. Its niche is combining its practice areas to restructure distressed commercial real estate and LLC’s, including workouts, recapitalizations, bankruptcies and sale-leasebacks and including handling any litigation associated therewith.

This firm’s real estate and bankruptcy work includes (a) in the good times – acquisitions, joint development agreements and easements, leases (including air rights, ground, interior space, tower, rooftop, and governmental leases), subleases and licenses, and financing structures; and (b) in the bad times – workouts, foreclosures, landlord/tenant renegotiations and evictions, bankruptcies (including single asset real estate and Chapter 11’s), and LLC member disputes. Its clients are primarily real estate developers, small businesses (including franchisees), investors, non-profits, trade associations, health care providers, and tech start-ups.

This firm’s technology work includes forming LLCs and negotiating joint development, teaming, subcontracts, licensing, employment, non-compete, confidentiality, and outsourcing agreements.

Its philosophy is to try to resolve bankruptcies and disputes, as much as possible, amicably through negotiations, from a long-term planning point of view. However, Ken Samuelson was an Assistant Attorney General. This firm litigates as and when necessary and appropriate whenever such negotiations fail.

Issues Samuelson Law is currently working on:

(a) in commercial real estate and bankruptcies – whether lenders or landlords have implied duties to mitigate their damages, whether covenants of a commercial lease are always independent despite the landlord’s gross misconduct causing the tenant’s breach, whether a government may condemn a property to make way for a commercial redevelopment that includes badly-needed subsidized housing, implementing cramdowns in bankruptcy single asset real estate cases, and the role of non-managing members in LLC bankruptcies; and

(b) In technology transactions – whether requiring a covenant not to compete or confidentiality agreement, or entering into a no poaching agreement, may backfire no matter how narrowly that covenant or agreement is drawn.