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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

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Real Estate - British Columbia
3
Band 3
What the Team is Known For

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

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Notable Practitioners

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Patrick J. Julian
1
Patrick J. Julian
1
Band 1

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 K. Tait
4
Erin K. Tait
4
Band 4

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

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Patrick J. Julian
1
Patrick J. Julian
1
Band 1
Erin K. Tait
4
Erin K. Tait
4
Band 4

Members

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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