Press coverage and representative cases relating to the Real Estate, Rental & Leasing sector.
Represented Canadian investors in Fort Lauderdale hotel property in mortgage foreclosure action with lender liability counterclaims resulting in successful resolution through renegotiation of financing and monetary recovery on counterclaims.
Counsel to luxury residential real estate owners alleging a breach of contract by a developer.
Counsel to real estate investors in connection with the purchase of debt (and eventual foreclosure) of dozens of parcels in Palm Beach County.
Plaintiff’s counsel to Lincoln Road art gallery in connection with a multi-million dollar dispute with its landlord and a neighboring tenant.
Counsel to real estate developers in connection with allegations of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and tortious interference relating to the purchase and potential sale of tracts of land in Broward County.
A failed real estate closing and multi-million dollar litigation.
MM&H successfully represented Bentall Green Oak, a New York-based, private equity fund with over $6 billion under management, in a lawsuit involving its failed purchase of a landmark downtown-Miami office building for $100 million. After the sale failed to close, New WT Miami, LLC, the selling party, laid claim to the $5.5 million earnest money [...]
[SHAREHOLDER DERIVATIVE] MM&H is representing Masoud Shojaee, a high-profile developer of more than $1 billion of new residential developments in South Florida, as the defendant in a shareholder dispute involving millions of dollars in loans to Mr. Shojaee from Santa Fe Haciendas, LLC. The lawsuit by the assignees of a seventy five percent membership interest [...]
[CROSS BORDER DISPUTE] MM&H successfully represented two Florida entities who own valuable real estate property in Miami. Plaintiffs are Argentinean lawyers who provided certain limited services to the manager of the Defendants. Plaintiffs initiated an ex parte secret legal action in Argentina against Defendants and others supposedly premised upon their entitlement to purported professional fees [...]
The Plaintiff brought claims against Humberto Visconte, his wife and their wholly owned entity, Markethings, LLC. arising out of allegations that Mr. Visconte, while acting as CEO of the Brazilian subsidiary, usurped a corporate opportunity for his own benefit, took kickbacks and performed other wrongdoing related to the Brazilian entity’s purchase of a large tract [...]