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May 28, 2025

Top Tips Before Signing Your Business Lease Agreement

Before you sign a lease agreement, there are many legal factors you need to consider to ensure you’re setting your business up for success. Do you know how to negotiate for the best terms? Or how to minimize your risk?

Join this webinar with The Legal Aid Society’s Rolando Gonzalez and Pursuit’s Irene Dominguez to go over everything you need to know before you sign a business lease agreement. You’ll learn useful strategies for preparing, negotiating, and signing a lease for your business, as well as how to pre-plan to select a good location.

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You'll Learn:

small business real estate
How to pre-plan to select a location
Resources
Key concepts and terms
checklist
Strategies to prepare for signing a lease
fast funding
Tips to minimize your risk

May 28, 2025

1:00 pm

Can’t make it? Sign up anyway and we’ll send you the recording.

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Meet Your Presenters

Rolando Gonzalez
Senior Staff Attorney at Legal Aid Society
Rolando Gonzalez is a senior staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society’s Community Development Project, where he represents low-income small businesses, community-based nonprofit organizations, HDFC cooperatives and tenant groups that work to preserve affordable housing. Prior to that he worked in Legal Aid’s Housing Development Unit and as an attorney in the 9/11 Small Business Legal Assistance Project, where he represented small businesses located below 14th Street affected by the events of September 11. Mr. Gonzalez was also a staff attorney at Harlem Legal Services and prior to that was Deputy Counsel for Planning and Economic Development for Congressman Jose E. Serrano. He frequently addresses community groups and he has been a panelist in CLE trainings.
Irene Dominguez
Vice President, Senior Business Advisor at Pursuit
Irene Dominguez is responsible for working with a roster of borrowers, understanding their business needs, connecting them with business resources, and developing new ways to engage them in consulting and advisory services. Prior to joining Pursuit, Irene worked with women and minority small businesses in other nonprofit organizations providing guidance on certification processes, credit, and other business areas. Irene has extensive experience in the non-profit and government sectors, including work with small businesses as well as program evaluation. At Pursuit, Irene has supported efforts to reach small businesses through participation in events, including acting as panelist at the 2024 Latino Business Forum, which was organized by the SBA and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Greater Bridgeport. Irene has an MA in Social Sciences, with concentration on economics, from Montclair State University.

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