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Thomas F. Maffei quoted in Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly article, “Restrictions on Property Transfer Deemed Invalid”

July 11, 2018

Thomas F. Maffei, of counsel in the firm’s Litigation Department, was quoted in a Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly article entitled, “Restrictions on Property Transfer Deemed Invalid,” on July 2, 2018.

From the article:

Another problem in the present case was that the price term in the transfer restriction agreement was “not really a price term,” said Boston attorney Thomas F. Maffei, who successfully represented the defendant before the SJC in Bortolotti.

By forcing the would-be seller to go before a panel of arbitrators who could revise downward an offer the seller had received, the provision would “eliminate the free back-and-forth that typically goes on with the buying and selling of real estate,” Maffei said.