You Can’t Cure Them All – Sometimes It Depends On How You Write The Same Obligation

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If, three months ago, you failed to carry contractually required insurance for one week, can you cure that breach now? Over the past week, we were thinking about the curability of defaults. And, we weren’t distinguishing between those of landlords or tenants or borrowers or lenders. Our starting point was the common formulation used to define an “Event of Default,” the occurrence of which triggers “consequences.” Here’s an example of the genre: [Read more…]

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More On The Exercising an Option While In Default Debate – Supplementary Thoughts

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The August 25 Ruminations posting about the right of a tenant to exercise renewal rights or non-disturbance rights even when it is in default engendered a lot of comment, both in on this Rumination site and in a number of Linked-In Group discussions. So, in a departure from past practice, I offer this “supplementary” posting with a generic form of compromise to “Get The Deal Done.” I’m not advocating one position or another with respect to any negotiation. In my role as an attorney, I represent clients, not myself. Attorneys advocate for their client’s desired outcomes. Attorneys are “who their clients are” when engaged as attorneys, though not in their public or private roles.

Ruminate over this: [Read more…]

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