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Welcome and Introduction

Simon R. Coval — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver

Negotiating the Lease

• negotiating in good faith?
• offer to lease—deal or no deal?
• uncertainty and agreements to agree
• subject deals
• key provisions to review (for tenant)
• key provisions to hold the line on (for landlord)
• drafting the lease agreement

Simon R. Coval — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Beverly G. Ellingson — Terra Law Corporation, Vancouver
Lisa Martz — Gudmundseth Mickelson LLP, Vancouver

Networking Break

Living With the Lease

• pre-commencement issues
  • problems with delivery of possession
    • prior tenant still in occupation
    • summary proceedings for possession under Commercial Tenancy Act
  • condition of premises
    • environmental condition at commencement of lease term
    • work to be completed during fixturing period (by whom and at whose expense)
    • tenant improvement allowances
• issues arising during lease term
  • landlord's covenant of quiet enjoyment
  • additional rent and allocation of expenses
  • enforcement of operating covenants
  • assignments, subleases, change of control, and franchising
  • impact of tenant's bankruptcy
• lease enforcement tools
  • landlord's remedies on default
  • 10 lease default remedies needed by landlords in every commercial lease

Randy G. Klarenbach — Platform Properties Ltd., Vancouver
H. Scott MacDonald — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver

Networking Lunch

Ending the Lease

• extension of the lease term
  • renewal versus extension: what's the difference?
  • arbitration of rent: model clauses
  • overholding
• expiration of the lease term—post-expiry issues
  • normal expiration: what stays, what goes—removal and restoration obligations
    • goods left behind: who is entitled to them?
  • termination for breach
    • recovery of possession

D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Peter Powers — Accurate Effective Bailiffs Ltd., Burnaby

Networking Break

Hot Topics: Grow Ops and Dispensaries

• legality 
• use clauses 
• insurance issues 
• enforcement

Simon R. Coval — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Randy G. Klarenbach — Platform Properties Ltd., Vancouver
Lisa Martz — Gudmundseth Mickelson LLP, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Richard J. Olson — McKechnie & Company, Vancouver
Peter Powers — Accurate Effective Bailiffs Ltd., Burnaby