Case Studies
Over the past twenty five years, Bob Machson has been a trailblazer on behalf of retail tenants. As an attorney, he was lead counsel more than twenty years ago in the first multi party litigation against (at the time) one of the country's largest mall landlords. Since then, he has represented specialty retailers, big boxes, restaurants, and movie theaters in litigation throughout the county and is frequently asked to appear as an expert witness in their behalf. Bob has also represented literally thousands of retail premises in audits with large and small landlords, including the largest owner/managers in the world. His record includes the following:
- Representing a multiple retailer group in audit of its 87 locations with the same developer. Negotiating a $2 million settlement and reducing operating cost charges over five years by another $3 million.
- Representing 11 different retailers in a joint audit of a major landlord developer, negotiating more than $20 million in recoveries and future savings. This is just one of the five joint audits successfully completed since 1995.
- Representing several big box, theater and restaurant tenants in disputes with landlords over repairs, insurance, GLA and co-tenancy claims. In one case, this meant recovering the $600,000 cost of a roof repair, in another, a $35,000 CAM claim of a restaurant outparcel.
- In three months, negotiating a $650,000 reduction in insurance charges and substantially reduced future costs.
