• 12
  • April
    2011

Grumer & Macaluso's commercial and real estate litigation blog will cover the latest issues, legal developments and strategies in the resolution of disputes over failed business transactions, broken real estate deals, interrupted construction projects and problems between creditors and debtors across the full range of Florida's slowly recovering economy.

This blog will serve as a forum for discussing the legal, regulatory, economic and business considerations that underlie what often turns out to be the central issue in many commercial disputes: how to apportion the loss when contractual commitments from several years ago turn out to have been based on overstated asset values in sales, lease or loan transactions.

For many lenders and borrowers since 2008, the main problem has been to avoid the worst consequences of performance or payment obligations that cannot possibly make economic sense today, but that several years ago looked sound enough in light of the ostensible asset values that underlay the original commitments.

Our civil litigation practice since the financial crisis gives our lawyers an excellent understanding of the ways that the contraction of equity values has affected the negotiation strategies, business practices and dispute resolution tactics of parties on both sides of the divide between buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, and landlords and tenants.

This blog will apply this perspective to comment on developments of interest to our Florida business litigation clientele. To see what our attorneys and others have to say about these issues, return to this page often. For additional information about our civil litigation practice, call or visit online the law firm of Grumer & Macaluso, P.A., in Fort Lauderdale.