Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
• Business Transactions
  Malkerson Gunn Martin LLP has very broad expertise in commercial litigation. This includes partnership and small entity disputes and breakups, business torts involving claims of improper conduct in business transactions, fraud, claims of negligent misrepresentation, interferences with contractual or economic relations, as well as bad faith and unfair dealing. Our lawyers handle numerous cases involving commercial contracts in a wide range of areas such as the purchase and sale of businesses, contracts for the sale or development of intellectual property, construction contracts, and cases under the Uniform Commercial Code, including contracts for the sale of goods, loan transactions, and banking disputes.
• Construction Contracts
  Negotiating land acquisition, city development agreements, construction contracts and financing for a 153 unit, $25 million apartment project in Hopkins
• Intellectual Property

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Malkerson Gunn Martin LLP represents clients across the spectrum of real estate disputes. Our firm represents developers, joint ventures, owners and purchasers, lenders, institutional investors, landlords and tenants in a broad range of disputes related to their interests in real estate. Malkerson Gunn Martin LLP attorneys are skilled at structuring alternative dispute resolution to craft a process to resolve disputes outside the traditional civil court system. We regularly assist our clients in...
• Premises Liability
  Before joining Malkerson Gunn Martin LLP, Ms. Johnson was a civil litigation attorney at firms in Minneapolis and Los Angeles focusing on commercial disputes involving employment, real estate, premises liability, construction defect and intellectual property.
• Construction Litigation
  Author and lecturer, "Negotiating the Design/Build Construction Contract - the Owner's Perspective," 1998 Minnesota Real Estate Institute, Minnesota State Bar Association Continuing Legal Education, 1998.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Author, "Special Issues When Purchasing Property for Development," MINNESOTA REAL ESTATE PURCHASE & SALE DESKBOOK (Minn. CLE 2010, 2015).
• Eminent Domain
  Bruce Malkerson recognized as the 2018 Minneapolis Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law “Lawyer of the Year” — Malkerson Gunn Martin LLP
• Easement
• Land Use and Zoning
  Brad Gunn has been elected for inclusion in the practice area of “Land Use and Zoning Law.” Mr. Gunn has also been names as Best Lawyers’ 2016 Minneapolis Land Use and Zoning Law “Lawyer of the Year”. Only a single lawyer in each practice area in each community is being honored as a “Lawyer of the Year.”
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
  The lawyers at Malkerson Gunn Martin LLP are well versed in all aspects of landlord-tenant dispute resolution and litigation.
• Property Damage
  Patrick B. Steinhoff focuses his practice on civil litigation, real estate and land use. He represents parties in civil litigation in both state and federal court relating to many different types of real estate and debtor-creditor issues, including, but not limited to, landlord-tenant disputes, debt collection, mortgage foreclosures, lien foreclosures, title registrations, title defects, boundary disputes, insurance coverage, breaches of contract, construction defects, property damage, condemnation, inverse condemnation, property taxes, special assessments, and all manner of land use issues. In addition to his litigation practice, he assists clients in the preparation and submission of many types of land use applications, including, but not limited to, re-zoning applications, re-guiding applications, conditional use permit applications, interim use permit applications, variance applications, preliminary and final plat applications, appeals from administrative decisions, and wetlands applications. As noted, he represents parties in trial and appellate court litigation relating to land use and zoning approvals, denials and enforcement actions.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Kathleen Martin is a founding partner of Malkerson Gunn Martin LLP and is the past Chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Real Property, Trust and Estate Law.
• Probate

Finance Law

• Foreclosure
  Real estate projects often pose an array of economic and legal challenges. Malkerson Gunn Martin LLP’s experienced workout group provides cost effective representation to property owners and lenders across a broad spectrum of industry segments including multi-family, commercial, retail, hotel and resort properties and partially developed land. We provide advice and legal strategies in monetary and non-monetary default resolution, claims and defenses, foreclosures, receivership proceedings and liquidation strategies for non-performing assets. Our workout lawyers collaborate with receivers and bankruptcy experts. We assist our clients with...
• Tax Law
  He left the private practice of law in 1984 to serve as Project Manager and General Counsel for Canterbury Downs. Concurrently, he was General Counsel to a major real estate developer in the Twin Cities and has overseen the legal issues, condemnation proceedings, planning, construction and financing of over $100 million in industrial, commercial, single family and multi-family development. He was president of and legal counsel to two real estate brokers that specialized in industrial, residential, and commercial properties in the City of Shakopee. Since returning to the private practice of law in 1987, he has acted as counsel to numerous developers and landowners in condemnation, real estate tax appeals and land use matters. He has been special counsel to numerous municipalities.
• Debt Collection