Matters
- Represented a commercial real estate development firm in a contract enforcement case involving a multimillion-dollar industrial property. Polsinelli successfully obtained an injunction preventing the seller from conveying the property to third parties, preserving the client’s development rights in one of the nation’s most competitive industrial markets.
- Representing an American beverage conglomerate in ongoing claims and disputes arising from the $500+ million expansion of its flagship brewery, including negotiations, mediations and claims management.
- Defending an affiliate of an international engineering firm in federal court in Maryland in a declaratory judgment action concerning over $12 million in claimed consulting fees tied to a two million square-foot industrial warehouse development.
- Secured a record $9.15 million eminent domain award in Kansas following the condemnation of property for infrastructure supporting an energy company’s $4 billion EV battery plant, the largest economic development project in Kansas history.
- Represented a California-based not-for-profit public-benefit corporation that operated hospitals and ancillary care facilities in three states, in a lawsuit in San Joaquin County Court with a neighboring property owner regarding restrictive covenants our client put on a property it sold in 2006.
- Represent hundreds of farmers and landowners along the Missouri River in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska in a mass action asserting claims for "takings." This litigation is among the largest takings cases ever brought against the federal government, with potential damages estimated to be over $500 million.
- Represented a real estate group in a breach of lease and eviction proceedings against an active hospital. Polsinelli prevailed on all claims, including obtaining an order of eviction and a monetary award of over $15 million, and prevailed on counterclaims asserting millions in damages.
- Secured a favorable settlement for the subsidiary of a university in a breach of lease case against a mining company involving a 500-acre underground mine. The company’s mining practices prevented future commercial use, causing substantial damages.
- Successfully defended a national retail chain in a weeklong federal jury trial over alleged lease-end property condition damages, achieving a verdict far below the landlord’s demands and the client’s prior settlement offers.