Avoid commercial leasing traps that can prove harmful or even fatal to a business! Take the advice of these experienced professionals on how to examine a complex modern leasing document and how to identify the “red flags.”

Negotiating and Drafting Office Leases offers a practical roadmap through the entire negotiation process. It reviews the clauses of a typical complex modern lease in detail, with explanation and commentary, examining the legal, economic and financial accounting ramifications. Topics include: negotiating strategies and styles; pitfalls created by other agreements entered into by the parties to a lease; repairs and maintenance; assignments and subleases; environmental compliance and due diligence; electricity and utilities costs and issues; the “Porter's Wage” escalation provision; tenant monitoring of landlord's escalation calculations; guarantors and security deposits; proving the existence of a lease when the original document is lost; quiet enjoyment; expansion space; bankruptcy; work letters; restrictive clauses; renewals and options; financing development through participation leases; synthetic leases; brokerage; lease audits; and many others. This invaluable primer, complete with glossary, comes with 150 forms on CD-ROM, including: landlord/tenant checklists of typical and atypical lease provisions; a sample tenant's proposal letter; work letter materials; a sample asbestos removal clause; good guy clauses; and other samples that will help beginners and experts alike involved in commercial real estate transactions.