Hospitality Industry’s Home for Coronavirus Legal Resources

David Helbraun was featured on an episode of “From Kitchen To Cause,” to talk about one of the most urgent issues today: rent. “David is the Founding Partner and Chairman of one of the largest law firms focused exclusively on hospitality, Helbraun Levey. In this episode, David shares how business owners are working with landlords to renegotiate rent during this difficult time.”

“My restaurant clients who are downtown in Lower Manhattan are struggling more than most, as much as Midtown clients,” said David Helbraun, founding partner and chairman at Helbraun Levey, a New York City-based hospitality law firm, who says the slow, choppy stimulus talks in Washington, D.C., have left the sector in even more dire straits. 

The real trouble, Helbraun says, are the mid-size property owners with a few dozen buildings. He calls them the shark pool; “cultivating a reputation for being tough and not budging is how they’ve survived in the past.”