Commercial Leasing 2025
Course Date: May 22, 2025
Total: 5h 17min
Total Ethics: 1h
Commercial Leasing 2025
Course Date: May 22, 2025
Total: 5h 17min
Total Ethics: 1h
Course Introduction and Land Acknowledgement (9:00 – 9:10)
Teresa Sheward — Program Lawyer, CLEBC, Vancouver
C. Nicole Mangan — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
C. Nicole Mangan — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Introduction to Commercial Leasing (9:10 – 9:40)
- the evolution of the commercial lease and remedies into the 21st century
- the commercial context of commercial lease remedies
- the nightmare: consequences of a bad strategy
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Case Law Update (9:40 – 10:20)
- review of the most interesting leasing decisions of 2024
- Kingsgate Property Ltd. v. Vancouver School District No. 39, 2024 BCSC 2325; the appeal of arbitral awards and application of issue estoppel
Ryan Shaw — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Sabdeep Sidhu — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Sabdeep Sidhu — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
BREAK (10:20 – 10:35)
Assignments and Subletting Rights and Remedies (10:35 – 11:05)
- assignments and subleases in law
- tenant/subtenant liability issues
- landlord consent issues
Layne Hellrung — Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, Vancouver
Distraint (11:05 – 11:30)
Matthew G. Swanson — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Renewal Rent Issues (11:30 – 12:00)
- drafting tips on framing rent issues in lease renewal clauses
- managing expert reports on renewal rent
- renewal rent arguments in arbitrations
C. Nicole Mangan — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
LUNCH (12:00 – 12:45)
How to Conduct an Arbitration (12:45 – 1:30)
- strategy and process
- Arbitration Act update
- tenant engaged process
C. Nicole Mangan — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Dealing with Insolvent Tenants (1:30 – 2:10)
- rights and remedies on a bankruptcy
- rights and remedies in a CCAA proceeding
- rights and remedies in a receivership proceeding
Robert Fischer — Whitelaw Twining Law Corporation, Vancouver
BREAK (2:10 – 2:25)
Leases on First Nations Lands (2:25 – 3:10)
Saravan J. Veylan — MLT Aikins LLP, Vancouver
Hot Topics Roundtable (3:10 – 3:45)
Robert Fischer — Whitelaw Twining Law Corporation, Vancouver
Layne Hellrung — Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, Vancouver
C. Nicole Mangan — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Ryan Shaw — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Sabdeep Sidhu — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Matthew G. Swanson — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Saravan J. Veylan — MLT Aikins LLP, Vancouver
Layne Hellrung — Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, Vancouver
C. Nicole Mangan — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Ryan Shaw — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Sabdeep Sidhu — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Matthew G. Swanson — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
Saravan J. Veylan — MLT Aikins LLP, Vancouver
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Slides: The Life and End Times of a Commercial Tenancy: A prophetic tale of why leases grew to 60 + pages… even though your client said, “Couldn’t we just have a simple lease”.
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Paper: Insolvency & the Commercial Tenant
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