Helped Clients Recover Over $25 Billion. Since 1979.
Helped Clients Recover Over $25 Billion. Since 1979.
Leases, purchases, and co-ownership arrangements tie up large sums for years, and the documents behind them decide who bears the risk. The Schenk Law Firm advises businesses, investors, families, landlords, and tenants on commercial leases, property transactions, and real estate disputes.
We draft, review, and negotiate leases for landlords and tenants. That work covers letters of intent, amendments, rent relief, subleases, assignments when a business is sold, and lease exits.
We represent buyers, sellers, investors, and co-owners. That work covers purchase agreements, escrow problems, 1031 exchanges, tenancy-in-common agreements, property-holding LLCs, options, easements, real estate offerings, and construction contracts.
Medical & Healthcare Real Estate
Leases, renewals, buildouts, and building purchases for physicians, dentists, therapists, med spas, and the owners who lease space to them.
We resolve disputes through demand letters, negotiation, and mediation. That work covers seller nondisclosure claims, commercial landlord-tenant disputes, co-owner disputes over sale proceeds, and easement disputes.
Where should I start if I’m not sure what kind of help I need?
Use the form on this page to describe the property, the documents involved, and any deadline you’re facing. We’ll tell you which part of our practice fits and what we’d need to review.
Do you handle residential property?
Yes, for purchases, sales, co-ownership agreements, and disputes over residential property. We don’t file eviction (unlawful detainer) cases.
Can you help with property outside California?
Our attorneys are licensed in California. For a lease in another state, we can review the business terms and work with local counsel on the provisions that depend on that state’s law.
Experience
David Lizerbram has practiced business law in California for more than two decades and has negotiated many commercial leases. Benjamin Schenk founded and runs a commercial real estate investment and asset management firm.
Both Sides of the Deal
We represent landlords as well as tenants, and buyers as well as sellers.
Working With Your Other Advisors
We work alongside brokers, agents, escrow officers, exchange intermediaries, and CPAs, and we focus on the legal side of the deal.
The Schenk Law Firm is based in North Park, San Diego, and advises on property throughout California.
Entity Formation & Structuring
LLCs and corporations for operating businesses and for holding property.
Contract Drafting & Negotiation
The contracts that sit alongside a lease or a purchase.
Business sales, including the leases that move with the business.
Shareholder, Member & Partnership Agreements
Agreements among the owners of a company, including one that holds property.
Structure and governance for families that hold property and other investments together.
Ongoing legal support for businesses and investors with recurring real estate work.
Whether you’re taking new space, buying property, selling property, sharing ownership, or facing a dispute, we can review your documents and explain your options.
Contact us today to discuss your real estate matter.
Request a ConsultationAn agent or broker negotiates price and business terms and can’t give legal advice. We advise on the legal terms of the documents and your rights under them, and we work alongside your agent or broker.
Both. We draft leases for landlords and negotiate leases for tenants.
Yes. We act as counsel to the owner making the exchange and work with the qualified intermediary and the owner’s tax advisor. We don’t act as the intermediary.
The lease, purchase agreement, or co-ownership agreement at issue, any amendments, and any notices from the other side. If a deadline is coming up, tell us the date.