About
Provided by Koffman Kalef LLP
Koffman Kalef’s Commercial Real Estate team has extensive experience representing clients in a variety of complex real estate transactions, including the purchase and sale of shopping centres, office buildings, industrial parks, and development sites. The lawyers have an in depth understanding of the requirements for preparing and filing disclosure statements under the Real Estate Development Marketing Act, and have worked on a number of strata corporation wind-ups. They also have particular experience with commercial leasing matters.
The Commercial Real Estate team works with a wide variety of clients, including private individuals and corporations, institutional and private landlords and tenants, developers, strata corporations, and liquidators. They also maintain excellent working relationships with local municipal governments.
Clients are guided through all aspects of development, as well as all phases and types of development, such as:
Rezoning entitlements
Development permits
Land assemblies and land exchanges
Subdivision matters, including airspace parcel subdivisions
Strata development
Mixed use projects
Hotel, office, and recreational development projects
Leasing, including the preparation and negotiation of all types of leases (ie. industrial, office, retail, and First Nations)
Constructions
Takeout and inventory financing
Development and implementation of deal structures (ie. joint ventures, co-ownership arrangements, and limited partnerships)
Chambers Review
Koffman Kalef is a Vancouver-based law firm that is valued for its experience and specialised expertise in the real estate sector in BC. The group is highly regarded for its leasing and financing expertise, as well as advising on real estate acquisitions and dispositions, and strata development matters. Koffman Kalef also handles subdivision and land assembly work.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Koffman Kalef punches above its weight."
"Koffman Kalef punches above its weight."
Notable Practitioners
Patrick Julian is an eminent figure in the BC real estate market, with long-standing commercial expertise in the space. Julian's client base includes tenants and landlords, as well as developers, whom he capably advises on transactions, financings and leasing. His diverse expertise spans residential, commercial, industrial and leisure developments.
"Patrick Julian is an exceptional real estate and business lawyer."
"He is very sophisticated."
Erin Tait acts for clients on development projects, transactional work and municipal law matters, alongside her role as the law firm's managing partner.
"Erin Tait is always a joy to work with and is professional, intelligent, practical and efficient in her work."
Ranked Lawyers at
Koffman Kalef LLP
British Columbia
Members
Provided by Koffman Kalef LLP
Andrea J. Wales
Corey Krohman
Daniel B. Newfield
Daniel S. Remick
Douglas A. Side
Jim M. J. Alam
Lazar Adam
Leslie A. Tucker
Mark E. Wong
Nathan Phelan
Ravinder Ravi Bindra
Rhea Shelton
Shawn A. Poisson
Sunjeet Grewal