Friedman on Leases clarifies and analyzes the full range of lease provisions and conceivable landlord-tenant situations to give you unsurpassed practical instruction on how to negotiate and draft airtight agreements that protect your clients’ rights and minimize their liability exposure.

Packed with numerous case decisions with commentary and valuable sample lease clauses and agreements, practitioners will be able to draft, negotiate, and amend every essential document involved in commercial leasing, modify lease provisions for the full variety of landlord-tenant arrangements, anticipate and resolve problematic transaction developments, avoid drafting errors,  deal with difficult issues specific to assignments, subletting, renewals, take-over leases, percentage leases, and other challenging aspects of commercial leasing.

The new release includes the following updates:

• Chapter 2 discusses Florida’s recently enacted legislation that restricts non-citizens who are domiciled either in China or other specified “countries of interest” from purchasing or acquiring any interest in real property in the state.
• Chapter 3 dives into express parking rights, including the latest case development.
• Chapter 4 provides an updated discussion on the possible right of bankruptcy trustee to terminate tenant’s lease rights, including the latest case developments.
• Chapter 5 covers tenant’s obligation to pay associated interest, penalties, and costs imposed due to tenant’s non-payment of real estate taxes, and includes a clause making clear tenant’s liability for such obligations.
• Chapter 6 provides commentary on implied duties of continuous operation.

The Table of Cases and Index have also been updated.

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