Tenant Insolvency Issues Affecting Landlords

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, commercial landlords may have to deal with tenants facing numerous challenges, including the impacts of governmental mandates, in some cases leading to financial insolvency. Join Fox Rothschild for a solution-oriented webinar covering landlords’ options for dealing with tenants in bankruptcy, with a focus on successful recovery.

Topics will include:

• Force majeure
• Common law performance defenses (impossibility, impracticability and frustration of purpose)
• Leasing effects and trends related to the pandemic
• Landlord remedies
• Basics of bankruptcy filings
• Automatic stays
• Lease assumption and rejection
• Damages claims
• Preference risk and defenses