Restaurants Face Challenges While retail in general faced challenges in 2019, food services faced an extremely difficult period. We expect these challenges to continue into 2020. With a tight labour market, increased competition, rising minimum wages and a strong economy, restaurants continue to be squeezed. For this reason, we expect that landlords will be receiving requests for […]
The publication inaugurated here seeks to embody the values that characterise SÉRVULO.This newsletter, given the indivisible communications component inherent to the provision of legal services, intends to serve as an extension of and supplement to direct contact with the client: comprising, in accessible terms, an information vehicle and one of digested reflection. Hence, it is a […]
The breakneck speed at which legal developments occur has established itself as the new paradigm for the current century. It, therefore, seems fit to remember a famous phrase by the most recent Nobel Laureate for Literature, Bob Dylan: There is nothing so stable as change. To illustrate this, the first article of this edition of SÉRVULO‘s Portuguese […]
Carla Parreira Leandro, Associate in the Financial and Governance department published an article according to the Law No. 30/2018, which establishes an Extraordinary and Temporary Regime for the Protection of Elderly or Disabled Persons who are tenants for more than 15 years. The law applies to persons over 65 or with a degree of disability (of […]
By Deborah E. Riegel, Litigation Member at Rosenberg & Estis, P.C. When the New York State Legislature implemented the HSTPA in June 2019, it predictably enacted dramatic and sweeping changes to not only the Rent Stabilization Law, but to both the Real Property Law and the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law as well. Those […]
Joana Pinto Monteiro is a Senior Associate at SÉRVULO’s Financial and Governance department and also has a practice in the area of Environmental, Urban Planning and Real Estate. Joana Pinto Monteiro published an article related to Order no. 228/2018, of August 13th, which approved the model of real estate agency contract with general contractual clauses. The full […]
There is an open question as to whether a guarantor’s promise to perform obligations other than the payment of the principal’s debts disqualifies the guaranty from the purview of CPLR 3213. This article explores how that question is answered in the Second and First Departments. Litigants suing under a note or guaranty want one thing—their […]
I Settled My Abuse Claim – Can I Re-Open It? The Royal Commission into Institutional Child Abuse brought these matters to the forefront of public knowledge and understanding. For the many people who lived with the consequences of that abuse the fight has often been going on for many years. Many people who suffered made […]
IR Global, the world’s largest exclusive network of advisory firms is delighted to introduce Fredrik Wennerstrand of ASTRA ADVOKATER. Fredrik has joined IR as our exclusive Real Estate Member in Sweden. ASTRA LAWFIRM offers comprehensive counselling in business law, litigation and business process. If you have a requirement in this area, please get in touch with Fredrik directly […]
In this highly competitive commercial leasing market, both landlords and tenants are finding themselves faced with the increasingly common pressure of timely building-out new space, decommissioning former space, and physically moving entire businesses, with the risk that delays may cause a tenant to holdover its expiring lease term. While it is common to contractually allocate […]
Where Evil Resides, Evil Acts People often ask us if the church or posh schools are the only institutions we act against in matters of Institutional Child Sexual Abuse. The answer is a definitive “No!” In today’s’ Sydney Morning Herald we have read an article by their crimes reporter, Sally Rawsthorne, about the allegations of sexual acts with […]
When the New York State Legislature implemented the HSTPA in June 2019, it predictably enacted dramatic and sweeping changes to not only the Rent Stabilization Law, but to both the Real Property Law and the Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law as well. Those amendments were widely predicted to impact owners’ rights and obligations in […]