Leasing Nightmares:  My Landlord Can’t Do That, Right?

Note:  Blackacre LLP is a boutique fixed fee real estate law firm with a restaurant leasing specialty.  From its experience serving as counsel to numerous restaurant clients, Blackacre’s attorneys know that a good lease is crucial to a restaurant’s success, while a bad lease can doom an otherwise successful restaurant to failure.  In the coming articles, Blackacre’s attorneys will write on how to prevent a restaurant lease from becoming the next “Leasing Nightmare." Here is a previous article.

For the month of Halloween, it seems only appropriate to write about the legal issue which most often crosses our desks with respect to our restaurant clients.  In our legal practice, when restaurant clients approach us to seek advice regarding a problem with their lease, there is no issue which comes up more frequently than landlord interference with the premises or surrounding common areas. 

Whether the issue involves a landlord requesting a tenant to shut down its restaurant…