Advanced Conference on
Negotiating, Drafting and
Enforcing Commercial Leases
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The commercial leasing environment is constantly changing: Market fluctuations, new retail players, changes from a landlords’ market to a tenants’ market, as well as current economic realities have forced landlords, tenants and private practitioners to adapt in order to accommodate and protect their business, financial and legal interests.
In response to the evolving leasing landscape, The Canadian Institute is proud to bring you its NEW Advanced Commercial Leasing Conference. This unique advanced event was researched, developed and designed to provide you with practical, strategic and economically sound approaches when negotiating, drafting and enforcing commercial leases. Learn and benefit from the innovative ways that leading landlord, tenants and private practitioners have managed, leveraged, and overcome the various issues and challenges they face today in order to avoid potentially costly and litigious mistakes.
Key topics include:
- Controlling and allocating operating costs to reduce their fi nancial impact
- Identifying lease issues that arise in the sale and financing of a property
- Achieving consistency between insurance clauses and other clauses in the lease
- Understanding the impact of environmental concerns on commercial leases
- Incorporating lease transfer and exit strategies into your agreements
- Anticipating market trends to adjust negotiation strategies accordingly
- Tailoring negotiation strategies that fi t a short, mid or long-term lease
- Pre-emptively dealing with a party’s default, insolvency or bankruptcy to protect both parties’ rights
- Leveraging your position when dealing with challenging clauses at each stage of the relationship
- Understanding how restrictive covenants can be used to maintain stability in the relationship
- Understanding the rights & obligations of the franchisor and franchisee to properly allocate costs, risks and liability
Celia Hitch, Director, Retail Legal Services, Oxford Properties Group Inc.
This unique event is NOT TO BE MISSED if you are in-house counsel for a landlord or a tenant, or a private practitioner in real estate and leasing… Your clients and organizations rely on you to negotiate the best terms for them while protecting them from hidden costs, shifting risks and fluctuating market trends.