Schiff Hardin attorneys have actively represented commercial and retail landlords in disputes in major bankruptcies. These included enforcing leases in the face of debtor's attempts to ignore key operating covenants in shopping center leases and the proof of rejection claims. We have been particularly active in asserting administrative claims of landlords.

Notable examples include, Schiff Hardin's efforts in the Montgomery Ward bankruptcy before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and in the HA-LO bankruptcy in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in the creation of important new law benefiting landlords concerning the landlord's claims for tax and operating expense pass throughs when leases are rejected mid-month.