Samuelson Law, LLC is a boutique law firm located in Washington, DC, the Maryland suburbs of DC, and northern Virginia. It focuses upon handling commercial real estate, business bankruptcy, and technology transactions, financings and litigation.
Samuelson Law is a b2b boutique law firm that focuses upon handling commercial real estate and technology transactions, business bankruptcies, and related litigation. Its niche is combining its practice areas to restructure distressed commercial real estate and LLC’s, including workouts, recapitalizations, bankruptcies, sale-leasebacks, and “business divorces” and other types of business break-ups and dissolutions, including handling any litigation associated therewith. Consequently, this firm is particularly sensitive, to such possibilities, when it structures the parties’ relationships and transactions.
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 – business or commercial workouts, foreclosures, landlord/tenant renegotiations and evictions, bankruptcies (including single asset real estate, small business reorganization act, Subchapter V, and other Chapter 11’s), financial restructurings (such as sale-leasebacks), and LLC member disputes. Its clients are primarily real estate developers, small businesses (including franchisees), investors, non-profits, embassies and commercial real estate lenders.
This firm’s technology work includes forming LLCs and negotiating joint development, teaming, subcontract, licensing, employment, non-compete, confidentiality, and outsourcing. Our Pentagon City/Crystal City contact enables this firm to better serve the massive development we expect from Amazon HQ2 at National Landing. That and this firm’s long-time presence in Montgomery County’s I-270 tech corridor (a/k/a DNA Alley) make this firm readily available to the bio- and other tech communities.
Its philosophy is to try to resolve such 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.
Its founder, Ken Samuelson, is admitted to practice in DC, MD, NY, and VA and before the following U.S. District Courts and Bankruptcy Courts: DC, MD, and Eastern District of Virginia.
Ken has over 30 years of experience as lead counsel, including representing various Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, as well as start-ups and small businesses.
Ken has been elected to various professional honor societies and councils, and received several professional designations, as shown by the badges on this website and in Who’s Who in American Law. He was a member of the governing Council of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, of the American Bar Association, and Co-chair of its Technology Committee, for years. He has authored numerous articles and presented numerous programs, including before the Harvard Business School Club of Washington, D.C., the American Inns of Court, and the American Bar Association. Ken’s latest presentation was a discussion of “Certain Pretrial Motions” before the Litigation Counsel of America, in November 2018, at the Harvard Club of New York City.
Samuelson Law is a virtual, networked law firm, which means that (a) EACH OF ITS ADDRESSES IS ONLY A MAIL BOX, AND ALL WORK IS PERFORMED AT A HOME/OFFICE OR IN CONTRACT OFFICE SPACE; and (b) it teams with colleagues from other law firms (most of whom are or were similarly-situated former partners of large law firms) with whom Ken has worked over the years, when and as needed for depth or specialization.
Ken has been rated “AV Preeminent” (the highest rating) by Martindale-Hubbell for at least each of the last 25 years and 10.0 (the highest rating) by AVVO for at least each of the last 10 years, and has been listed in “Super Lawyers” in each of the last 10 years.