Matthew Handler

• Defended a commercial landlord in a fraud and deceptive trade practices action brought by a tenant alleging misrepresentations concerning the rentable square footage of the premises.
• Prosecuted a breach of lease action on behalf of a real estate investment trust against a coworking company based upon the tenant’s improper lease termination.
• Advised a retail and technology company on restrictive covenant risks relating to its expansion of physical stores.
• Defended a coworking company in breach of lease and corporate veil-piercing actions relating to the closure of coworking locations.
• Advised a technology company on the closure of its global brick-and-mortar retail business; resolved long-term lease liabilities and litigated related disputes.
• Prosecuted a breach of lease arbitration on behalf of a real estate developer against a university based upon the tenant’s failure to pay CPI-based rent escalations.
• Defended a grocery store chain in a dispute with a real estate developer concerning the tenant’s reimbursement of development and construction costs.
• Defended a university in a private nuisance action brought by neighboring residents.
• Advised a cloud computing business on risk management pertaining to sound from data centers throughout the United States.
• Defended a national retailer in an action brought by a shopping center chain based upon the retailer’s closure of numerous stores throughout the United States.
• Defended a real estate developer in a dispute concerning the sale of several apartment complexes in New York and New Jersey.
• Advised an international retailer on the closure of several retail businesses throughout the United States; resolved long-term lease liabilities and litigated related disputes.
• Defended a real estate developer in an action concerning brokerage commissions for the sale of property.
• Defended a commercial tenant in a constructive eviction action involving toxic mold contamination.
• Prosecuted a breach of lease action on behalf of a national retailer based upon its landlord’s repeated failures to mitigate flood conditions and deliver first-class retail space to tenant as provided under the parties’ leases.°
• Defended a real estate development fund in a breach of fiduciary duty and fraud action brought by minority members based upon allegations that the fund managers failed to timely sell fund properties during peak market profitability.°
• Prosecuted a fraud and breach of lease action on behalf of a global bank based upon its landlord’s scheme to pass through millions of dollars in fraudulent tax and operating expense charges under the parties’ net leases.°
• Defended a real estate investment and development firm in a RICO action brought by investors based upon allegations that firm managers concealed investment losses.°
• Prosecuted a fraud and breach of fiduciary duty action on behalf of an investor in a foreign real estate development venture based upon the project managers’ material misrepresentations concerning the scope of the project, misappropriation of investment funds, and concealment of investment losses.°
• Defended a global bank in an interpleader action brought by the IRS to resolve a claim priority dispute over the tax-debtor’s music royalty stream; the tax-debtor assigned music royalties to the bank as part of a securitization transaction; the IRS sought to set aside that securitization transaction based upon alter ego, nominee, and fraudulent transfer theories of third-party liability.°

°The above representations were handled by Mr. Handler prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.

• Team Member, a Law360 "Real Estate Practice Group of the Year," 2023
• Team Member, U.S. News – Best Lawyers, "Law Firm of the Year: Litigation - Real Estate," 2022
• Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, New York Metro Super Lawyers, “Rising Stars,” 2018-2024

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