Law Office of Edward S. West

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Law Office of Edward S. West

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    • Home
    • About Mr. West
    • Transactions
      • Leasing/Property Mgt.
      • Purchases,Sales&Business
      • Financing & Investments
      • ProjDvlpmt & Structurings
      • Design/Construction
      • Dispute Resolution
      • Public-Private Ptnrshps.
      • Pro Bono Work
    • Contact
  • Home
  • About Mr. West
  • Transactions
    • Leasing/Property Mgt.
    • Purchases,Sales&Business
    • Financing & Investments
    • ProjDvlpmt & Structurings
    • Design/Construction
    • Dispute Resolution
    • Public-Private Ptnrshps.
    • Pro Bono Work
  • Contact

Dispute Resolution (Litigation and Arbitration)

  • Litigated numerous landlord-tenant matters, drafted pleadings, and collaborated with litigators in other matters


  • Settled a Washington, D.C. owner's dispute with its architect for a significant design flaw in a special use facility


  • Selected as a party-appointed arbitrator to interpret lease commencement obligations and "go dark" provisions in several different leases among a large publicly-traded regional grocery store chain and a regional developer and to resolve the related lease disputes (>$50 million aggregate value)


  • Served as a party-appointed arbitrator to interpret a ground lease's complex rent re-set provision and to resolve the related ground lease dispute between a national labor union real estate investment fund, as the ground lessor, and a major Northern Virginia multifamily property owner, as the ground lessee, concerning one of Northern Virginia's largest multifamily residential apartment complexes


  • Settled a Colorado owner's claim against its environmental consultants ($400 million resort project)


  • Provided real estate-related litigation advice to the seller of major New York City and Beverly Hills hotels


  • Represented a limited partner in resolving the real estate and tax aspects of its dispute with its general partner's improper self-allocation of extra UPREIT shares in exchange for it’s consenting to the partnership's sale of its multifamily holdings to a large national multifamily REIT


  • Represented a limited partner in resolving the real estate and tax aspects of its dispute with its general partner's converting/renovating the partnership's parking garage and below-grade retail space without paying fair compensation to the partnership, such that a 300-unit condominium project (with a below-grade lobby) could be constructed above the garage using air-rights owned separately by the general partner's principal


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