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6/20/2016 | Real Estate Blog
With commercial real estate prices rising in most sectors, investors in Pennsylvania may wonder where to invest. According to the CEO of Marcus & Millichap, the nation’s largest real estate brokerage firm, prices for office properties are still below their pre-recession levels. Office properties may be a good investment opportunity as prices are expected to go up.
6/18/2016 | Real Estate Blog
Last summer was a banner year for corporate mergers and acquisitions. While many multi-billion dollar deals involved pharmaceutical companies looking to lower their federal corporate tax burdens, it appears that this summer will focus on mergers between real estate investment firms.
6/17/2016 | Real Estate Blog
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced on June 7 that Royal Dutch Shell had finalized its plans to build an ethane cracking plant in the western part of the state. The announcement was made in the form of a statement released to the press and posted online. Gov. Wolf said in the statement that Shell’s announcement came after more than four years of behind-the-scenes planning and negotiations.
6/16/2016 | Construction Blog
On the heels of our successful Spring Seminar Series, Kaplin Stewart’s Construction Law Group is in the process of planning its next program offering. Our Fall Seminar Series will follow a similar set-up to our Spring Seminar Series and offer some great new topics. We will have another announcement in the near future with more details, but here are some of the particulars.
6/15/2016 | Construction Blog
Part 2 of a 3 part series on risk management My previous post in this series addressed the most obvious reason why a construction company’s contract is not keeping it out of court: the contract simply isn’t good enough. It bears repeating that no contract is perfect; and even the best contracts, which allocate risk as opposed to eliminate it, can’t prevent every possible lawsuit. Because the contract itself cannot completely insulate a company from litigation, the next logical question […]
