Commercial and Business Litigation

Commercial and Business Litigation

Albert Farrah’s experience in commercial and business litigation is extensive, and includes commercial, construction, partnership, governmental and real property disputes. He has represented clients against insurance companies, banks and municipalities, in disputes with former counsel and auditors and in employment litigation. A sampling of those matters is set forth below.

Represented the owners of over 500,000 square feet of loft space in Boston’s SOWA (South of Washington Street) district – in which dozens of persons were alleged to be living and working as artists – against claims by the Boston Rent Equity Board that it had jurisdiction over these properties, and the power to roll back and then control rents at 1969 levels, and thus force Mr. Farrah’s clients pay tenants and former tenants alleged “rent overcharges” reaching back over 20 years. The potential impact to the landlord was catastrophic, easily in the range of several million dollars. For five years, Mr. Farrah defended lawsuits and administrative hearings brought by the Board and individual tenants. A settlement was finally reached. The Board exercised no jurisdiction, the properties were never subject to Rent Control, and the clients paid no damages and suffered no losses. City of Boston Rent Equity Board, et al v. Nicosia, et al, Boston Housing Court.