Restaurant and Retail

Overview

Our attorneys have substantial experience in purchasing and selling restaurants, bars and similar businesses, including structuring purchase and sale transactions in an asset, stock, or membership interest sale, performing due diligence, addressing issues surrounding lease assignment, security for the deferred portion of the purchase price, and closing contingencies.

We counsel our clients on required licenses and permits (including liquor licenses) and related contingencies, transferee liability, critical seller representations and warranties, adjustments to price, indemnification, and closing issues.

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Representative Matters

Represented the purchaser of two adjacent restaurants and liquor license to combine the properties for a new restaurant concept in the South Boston area of Boston, Massachusetts.

Represented the purchaser of three restaurant businesses and liquor licenses in the North End area of Boston, Massachusetts.

Represented the owner in a lease of a historic restaurant in downtown Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Represented the purchaser of an historic restaurant business and liquor license in downtown Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Represented the purchaser of a restaurant and liquor license for a new restaurant concept in the South End area of Boston, Massachusetts.

Represented the owner in the sale of an historic restaurant business and liquor license Somerville, Massachusetts.

Represented the tenant in a lease negotiation for a restaurant, bar and indoor golf simulator business in the South Boston area of Boston, Massachusetts.

Represented the owner in a lease negotiation for a seafood restaurant in the Dorchester area of Boston, Massachusetts.

Represented the tenant in a lease negotiation for a fitness center in the South Boston area of Boston, Massachusetts.

Represented the tenant in a lease negotiation for a cycle studio in the South Boston area of Boston, Massachusetts.

Represented the tenant in a lease negotiation for a True Value store in the South Boston area of Boston, Massachusetts.

Represented the owner in a lease negotiation for a national real estate brokerage use in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Represented the owner in a lease negotiation for a clothing store in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Represented the owner in a lease negotiation for a national pet store in Leominster, Massachusetts.

Represented the owner in a lease negotiation for a seafood restaurant in the Dorchester area of Boston, Massachusetts.

Represented the owner in a purchase of a retail strip mall for cannabis sales in Newton, Massachusetts.

News & Insights

Murphy PC Advises on Lease Extensions and Refinancing of Mixed-Use Buildings on Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts

November 22, 2024-Murphy PC represented the owner of two commercial buildings on Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusett...

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October 15, 2024-Murphy PC represented a preferred equity investor in a joint venture to develop a 40-unit mixed-use ...

Murphy PC Advises on Joint Venture Preferred Equity Investment in Mixed-Use Building in Somerville, Massachusetts

September 30, 2024-Murphy PC represented a preferred equity investor in a joint venture development of a building in ...