Top-tier law firm expertise
Our commercial real estate legal team is dedicated to protecting your interests throughout every stage of your commercial property dealings. From drafting and reviewing contracts to negotiating lease terms and ensuring compliance with legal regulations, our experts are here to guide you every step of the way. With a deep understanding of the complexities of real estate law, we proactively address potential risks, mitigate legal challenges, and ensure your transactions are secure. Having this specialized support in-house allows us to provide timely, cost-effective legal services while safeguarding your investments and supporting your long-term success.
Our Legal Services
Contract Standardization
Our Contract Standardization Service mitigates risks by developing consistent, legally compliant templates with clear, standardized terms tailored to your business needs. Leveraging our in-house team of real estate lawyers, we ensure all contracts are aligned with regulatory requirements, minimizing errors and preventing costly disputes. By defining roles, responsibilities, and risk allocation, we protect your business from unforeseen liabilities while streamlining contract management for greater efficiency.
Lease Negotiation
Negotiating a complex lease back and forth can quickly add up when you are being charged on an hourly basis, especially when communicating with an external group. By calling on our team of experts, you benefit from first-rate Canadian legal support on a per-document basis, guaranteeing efficiency and cost reduction. Our approach allows for smoother negotiations, faster turnaround times, and more predictable costs.
Commercial Tenant Representation
Having successfully drafted, negotiated, and managed hundreds of commercial lease contracts, we are equipped to navigate even the most complex leasing situations. We ensure that every aspect of the lease agreement is compliant with relevant laws and regulations, protecting your business from potential legal risks and costly mistakes. Free up your own legal team to focus on issues that are critical to your company.
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Law u0026 Negotiation in Canada
While Canadian and American commercial leases share much in common, there are subtle differences that are important to consider when working with clients who have real estate interests in Canada.
Commercial Real Estate Leases: Law u0026 Negotiation in Canada
Understanding the difference between Quebec and the rest of Canada when it comes to assigning the lease is crucial, as it directly defines which party is legally obligated by the conditions of the lease.
FAQ
We focus on tenant representation, working closely with our transaction management team to draft, review, and negotiate leases across Canada. We ensure agreements are fair, consistent, and aligned with your business strategy. We also provide internal legal support across Landmark and can take on one-off mandates if needed.
Our legal services provide expert support to protect your interests at every stage of your commercial property transactions.
Our services include:
- Drafting and negotiation of leasing agreements, including offers to lease, leases, extensions, expansions, assignments, subleases, and termination agreements
- Drafting and negotiation of purchase and sale agreements, including closing coordination (Quebec and Alberta)
- Coordination of negotiations of purchase and sale agreements for transactions outside of Quebec and Alberta
- Demand letters
- Lease review opinions
- Coordination of arbitration and litigation files
- Drafting and reviewing of estoppel certificates
- Registration of notices of lease in Quebec and Alberta
- Coordination of registration of notices of lease outside of Quebec and Alberta
- Due diligence lease verifications in the context of real estate acquisitions and mergers & acquisitions (M&A)
- Lease Abstraction
We specialize in commercial real estate and take a practical, business-oriented approach. As tenant representatives for a strong portfolio of corporate clients, we leverage negotiations with landlords to secure terms that align with your best interests, protect your operations, and reduce financial risk.
Engaging our team early helps prevent costly mistakes and delays. We can spot potential issues before they escalate, structure agreements to align with your business strategy, and ensure due diligence is thorough and efficient.
Example: A client was about to sign a lease requiring major building upgrades, like roof or HVAC replacements, to be paid upfront as operating costs. We identified the risk and negotiated that capital expenses be amortized over their useful life with capped annual increases. This protected the tenant from sudden financial shocks and kept long-term costs predictable.