Media Coverage 05.31.23
Anthony Cavanaugh is a trial lawyer representing clients in both state and federal court in all aspects of commercial and real estate litigation.
Anthony has experience handling complex disputes in the real estate and hospitality industries, including evaluating and litigating disputes with owners, management companies, franchisors, tenants, lenders and vendors. Anthony also has experience litigating complex construction and engineering disputes.
Representative Experience
- Represented a hotel owner in a dispute with its manager regarding termination for mismanagement of the hotel and failure to provide access to hotel books and records.
- Represented a hotel owner in a complex construction defect claim.
- Represented a construction joint venture in errors and omissions claim against its designer.
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- Represented numerous commercial real estate owners and tenants, including a national medical services provider, in various real estate disputes, including commercial landlord-tenant disputes.
- Represented a hotel purchaser in a dispute with the seller regarding whether the seller breached the performance obligations of a purchase and sale agreement.
- Represented a hotel management company in a dispute brought by a former business associate claiming interest in the management company.
- Represented a national homebuilder in a series of class actions regarding statutory disclosures in a new home sales contract.
- Represented a resort campground owner in disputes arising under the declaration governing the campground.
- Represented a number of closely-held corporations in corporate governance disputes.
- Represented a national real estate developer at trial in a breach of contract lawsuit involving the sale of a concert venue.
- Represented a resort campground owner in a federal class action litigation brought by a class of lot owners alleging violation of a declaration of easements.
- Represented an owner of multiple residential apartment properties in a 25,000 member state class action involving alleged predatory towing from commercial parking lots.
- Represented shareholders of a closely held corporation formed to own real estate in a dispute arising out of the corporation’s shareholder agreement.
- Represented a national federal credit union in a real estate dispute arising out of an alleged violation of easements.
- Represented multiple commercial property landlords in commercial landlord-tenant disputes.
- Represented a hotel owner in state court litigation arising out of manager’s breach of the hotel’s management contract and its fiduciary duties, and was successful in obtaining a declaration from the court that the hotel owner had the power to terminate the hotel operator at will based on a personal services theory.
- Represented a hotel owner in negotiating a beneficial termination of a franchise agreement with a major hotel operator.
- Represented a property owner in a federal court litigation against its ground lease tenant regarding tenant’s failure to pay rent.
- Represented a property owner in a federal court litigation with its tenants arising out of a planned renovation.
- Represented a major engineering firm in resolving a dispute with their real estate broker and property manager.
- Represented a local restaurant chain in negotiating a favorable lease termination with its landlord, the United States Office of Thrift Supervision.
Professional Highlights
- Named to the 2021 Irish Legal 100 by The Irish Times
- Member, Montgomery County, Maryland Inns of Court
- “COVID-19 Offers Cautionary Tales on Hospitality Contracts,” Hospitality Law360, October 4, 2021
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- External Publications
- Co-author, “Key Legal Issues: The Battle for Control,” chapter for the Third Edition of Hotel Asset Management Principles & Practices, published by the American Hotel and Lodging Association’s Educational Institute
- Co-author, “Key Legal Issues” chapter for the Fifth Edition of Hotel Investments: Issues & Perspectives, published by the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s Educational Institute
- Five Things to Know About the Upcoming Amendments to the Rules of Civil Procedure, Arnold & Porter Advisory, October 2015
- Court of Appeals Allows FTC’s Cyber Security Breach Case Against Wyndham to Proceed, Arnold & Porter Advisory, August 2015
- The Limits Of Insurance In Managing Hotel Cyberrisk, Hospitality Law360, Insurance Law360 and Privacy Law360, February 10-12, 2014
- Speaking Engagements
- The Pendulum Swings: Survey of Management Agreement Litigation, 2014 Hospitality Law Conference, Houston TX
- Honors & Awards
- Named to Washington, DC Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in Business Litigation (2013 – 2014)
Education
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J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2002
Editor, Georgetown International Environmental Law ReviewB.A., Philosophy, Fairfield University, 1996
cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa; Minor in Spanish
Admissions
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District of Columbia
Maryland
Courts
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U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland