Alison E. Geddes

Representative Litigation Experience

• Represents property owners and developers in the negotiation and drafting of commercial leasing and other lease documents, including lease amendments, assignments and termination agreements.
• Represents parties to leases pertaining to the exercise of options to lease commercial real property.
• Represents REITs holding more than 9 million square feet of retail and mixed-use commercial real estate with lease disputes, evictions, lease enforcement and obtaining and enforcing judgments.
• Successfully negotiated and drafted a lease amendment enforceable by court judgment in litigation pertaining to commercial tenant’s numerous lease defaults regarding completion of tenant improvements, failure to obtain licenses and permits and failure to pay rent.
• Successfully negotiated settlement agreement following a tenant’s abandonment of leased property wherein individual lease guarantors paid the landlord an amount equivalent to more than 21 monthly rent payments.
• Negotiated a lease termination agreement with a national restaurant chain tenant in which the tenant paid a termination fee equivalent to more than one year’s rent.
• Negotiated a successful settlement agreement on behalf of a regional REIT charged with a breach of lease by its tenant.
• Represented a commercial landlord’s interests in a dispute with a national retail anchor tenant regarding annual common area maintenance reconciliations.
• Successfully obtained court-issued prejudgment attachment liens upon real property.