CLE Online

Welcome and Introduction

REDMA

• review of the recent legislative amendments to REDMA
• review of the implication of the BCCA decision in Woo
• practice issues for lawyers preparing (and amending) disclosure statements

Paul Brackstone — Owen Bird Law Corporation, Vancouver
Mark V. Lewis — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver

Airspace Parcels

• review of current LTO practice
• examples of air space parcel subdivision issues 
• pre-construction subdivision approval 
• drafting air space parcel easement agreements

David C.S. Longcroft — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver

Networking Break

Pipelines

• federally regulated vs. provincially regulated pipelines
• National Energy Board vs. Oil and Gas Commission
• survey issues
• rights of way vs. leases
• negotiation of terms
• Agricultural Lands Reserve
• Crown lands
• expropriation powers

Edward L. Wilson — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver

Due Diligence

• checklists: good or bad
• charges that bind successors
• the necessity for off-title searches
• consequences of not doing off-title searches, especially tax searches
• practice tips

Alexander Fane — Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP, Vancouver

Real Estate Financing, Lending, and Opinions

• opinion issues from the borrower/lender perspective
• borrower’s counsel, swaps, complex borrower’s agreements, inter-creditors agreements
• what to look for—bankers acceptance clause
• opinions—financing, lending issues, limited partnership structures

Mark C. Baron — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Samantha Rossman — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver

Lunch (on your own)

Legal Structures

• LP vs. LLP
• JV vs. general partnership vs. co-ownership
• GST issues
• issues where there are non-resident investors
• use management agreements where investors are also earning management fees

Eric Feilden, CA, TEP — MNP LLP, Vancouver

Leasehold Developments

• residential and industrial developments on university, First Nations, and port lands

Erin K. Tait — Koffman Kalef LLP, Vancouver
Elizabeth Yip — Terra Law, Vancouver

Networking Break

First Nations Development—A Case Study

• different regimes: Indian Act vs. self-government/land code
• certificate of possession vs. band bands
• band development on Westbank First Nation lands (vs. AANDC bands)

Barry M. Porrelli — Porrelli Law, Westbank

Development Covenants

• drafting and compliance issues with focus on the developer's counsel
• servicing agreements
• shared vehicle covenants, electric car covenants, accessibility covenants, parking covenants, district and neighbourhood energy utilities
• disclosure to purchasers in disclosure statements and compliance issues
• rental housing covenants
• blanket no-development covenants

Joscelyn P. Baker — Polygon Homes Ltd., Vancouver
Arnon A. Dachner — Dentons Canada LLP, Vancouver