Category: Lease Buyouts
Seem Like Offers to Buy or Extend Your Cell Tower Lease Are Getting Better?
Coupled with low cost of capital and their recent conversions to REITs, tower companies have every incentive to convert leases (long term operating expense) to easements (upfront capital expenditure).
Verizon’s Tricky-Tricky Cell Site Lease Assignment Language
We applaud Verizon for their interest in preventing their leases from being sold to third parties like lease buyout companies. It …
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One of our client's called us yesterday to let us know that they had been beleaguered by a tower company …
Everest Infrastructure Partners: The Phoenix of Tristar Investors?
HISTORY OF TRISTAR INVESTORS Back in 2008-2013, a company called Tristar Investors was attempting to acquire ground leases under American …
CCI expresses interest in buying Verizon towers
Crown Castle (CCI) is the largest of the Big Three U.S. tower companies, and currently owns 40K towers nationwide (followed …
Tristar Investors Lawsuit Against American Tower Corporation
On Feb 16, 2012, Tristar Investors sued American Tower Corporation alleging that American Tower had violated the Lanham Act, unfairly …
Best Practices Guide for Lease Buyout/Optimization Companies
The article is written tongue in cheek- I was just feeling a little rambunctious today about the myriad of “strategies” that lease buyout companies, tower companies, lease optimization firms, and wireless carriers use to try to convince landowners to do something that is not in their best interest.
Crown Castle and Nextel Revenue Sharing
On a few occasions now, clients of ours with Crown Castle tower ground leases have received proposals to either purchase …
When People with Good Intentions Make Poor Decisions Out of Ignorance
A gentleman contacted me this past week, a bit upset in that his church board had decided to sell a …