Practices

The real estate and secured lending attorneys at KPPB LAW have extensive knowledge and experience on a wide range of real estate and commercial lending issues. We regularly represent clients on real estate acquisitions and sales, financing and secured lending, construction, leasing, zoning and land use, regulatory matters including environmental issues, and the exercise of rights and remedies such as receiverships and foreclosures.

Bankruptcy can often be an effective "pause" button to help an individual or business stay collection activities while reorganizing their finances. The attorneys at KPPB LAW can guide you through this critical — and often confusing — maze by helping you decide how to best protect you, your family and business. We'll explain the Consumer Bankruptcy process under Chapter 7 and Business Bankruptcy procedures under Chapters 7 and 11.

KPPB LAW specializes in representing creditors as aggressively as the law allows in matters of judgment enforcement and recovery, as well as general collections and creditor's rights matters.

If you are struggling to pay off your commercial loan, a commercial loan workout (or commercial loan reduction) should be considered. This is the process of working with your lender to reach a settlement amount that works for both parties. The KPPB LAW team will help formulate a seamless strategy to help developers, investors, institutional lenders, and individuals overcome this often critical hurdle.

KPPB's Commercial Real Estate Finance team assists both borrower entities and lending institutions in a wide variety of real estate related debt financing. We have represented clients in real estate finance matters including: multi-family, industrial, healthcare, hospitality, retail, office complexes, golf courses and other properties. Our experience has spanned several economic cycles allowing us to provide experienced and practical counsel to our clients.

KPPB LAW's real estate counsels provide creative solutions to complex commercial real estate transactions while ensuring the transaction process is streamlined and creates value for our client. Our commercial real estate attorneys work directly with developers, contractors, investors, financial institutions, and other critical players in this arena. Our expertise spans a wide range of legal and transactional segments of the commercial real estate industry.

Construction law deals with all matters involved in the construction process, dealing with every particular stage of a project from planning to completion, including scheduling, budgeting, fulfilling regulatory guidelines, and submitting claims, as well as managing/hiring architects, material suppliers, contractors and subcontractors.

Contracts are essential to most business transactions but when these agreements fall apart or the other side appears to be taking advantage, it is critical to enlist an experienced business litigation attorney who will help protect your rights.

Regardless of whether you're a business owner, manager, investor or buyer, the KPPB LAW attorneys are specialized in helping businesses at every stage of its life cycle. By relying on our decades of experience working with similarly situated enterprises, we assist hundreds of privately-held businesses and business owners with the legal hurdles that may arise as they grow and scale their businesses.

To help our clients take advantage of increasing globalization of the economy, KPPB LAW represents both U.S. and non-U.S. clients making investments in U.S. based companies and real estate.

KPPB LAW’s DEI Strategic Counseling services help strengthen organizations through sustainable systems, policies, and procedures that foster diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplaces where all employees thrive personally and professionally.

Backed by decades of experience and a pristine reputation, KPPB LAW proudly offers comprehensive legal counsel to facilitate successful planning, organization, financing and day-to-day operation of hotels and resorts. Our clients vary in size and in the scope of their legal needs — from the sole proprietor of an independent motel to an owner/operator of over 50 hotels.

Whether you're a foreign investor, a business entering the U.S. market, or a business hiring foreign workers, KPPB LAW helps clients operate successfully in a world in which capital and opportunities have no borders.

The specialized area of intellectual property law has rapidly grown in the past decade, as access to and distribution of patented technology and copyrighted creations continually increases with emerging technologies. KPPB LAW regularly works with individual inventors, start-ups and academic institutions as well as Fortune 500 companies in protecting their proprietary products, innovative technologies, service marks, trademarks, ideas and much more.

Navigating the intricacies of investment management and fund formation often becomes challenging due to the evolving global economic landscape. KPPB LAW, led by NYC-based Partner Raj Mahale, stands at the forefront of investment management strategy, representing a myriad of clients from emerging managers to family offices. Our expertise encompasses establishing global feeder funds, fostering legal partnerships across Asia, and pioneering funds in renewable energy and real estate sectors.

KPPB LAW assists its clients with employee relations, both on a transactional basis as well as with litigation matters and mediation. We prepare handbooks, employment agreements, severance packages and handle business-related disputes involving employee theft of data/documents and non-competition agreement violations — and represent our clients before courts and agencies that regulate any aspect of the employment relationship.

Landlord/Tenant and lease rights are often compromised by parties failing to adhere to the terms of a lease and the applicable law. KPPB LAW represents landlords, property/commercial asset managers, and tenants. For our commercial landlords and property/commercial asset manager clients, we typically draft and negotiate commercial leases and advise and handle eviction/dispossessory proceedings.

KPPB LAW understands that your business is important to you. Our legal team is well versed in complex business litigation and corporate law matters and will ensure you receive representation that best protects your business interests.

KPPB LAW regularly represents clients — either as buyers or sellers — in mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, liquidations, and reorganization transactions. Our experienced attorneys participate in all aspects of these transactions including structuring, financing, regulatory compliance and implementation.

Whether you are a small company or big company — public and private alike — you will find yourself dealing with the dynamics of capital planning and executing corporate growth strategies that align with your long-term goals.

KPPB's Tax Practice work in tandem with clients and their advisors to fully map out each client's current economic and tax situation, and identify all tax and planning opportunities and needs, then design and implement a customized plan individually tailored to meet the client objectives. Effective tax planning can be implemented at any time and under any circumstances to varying degrees of effectiveness.

The attorneys at KPPB LAW advise clients in a diverse range of technologies, including computers, software, networking, telecommunications, e-commerce and internet-based systems, industrial equipment, manufacturing processes, biotechnology, life sciences, medical devices, and consumer products.

For maximum effectiveness, estate planning benefits from an experienced attorney leading you through in-depth discussions to uncover hopes, fears and expectations for both you and those who are most important to you. The attorneys at KPPB LAW offer a range of practical wealth-management and asset protection services, with the goal of ensuring your family's estate planning wishes are met while minimizing the impact of probate and estate taxation.