Koffman Kalef LLP, Canada 2025

About

Provided by Koffman Kalef LLP

Canada

Firm Details:

Managing Partner: Erin K. Tait

Number of partners: 18

Number of lawyers: 32

Languages: English, French, Gujarati

Firm Overview:

Koffman Kalef LLP is a mid-sized Vancouver law firm practicing in selected areas of business law. The depth of knowledge and experience of its lawyers allows the firm to deliver high quality legal services in a timely and cost-effective manner. The firm understand the needs of their business clients and are committed to meeting those needs by providing the highest quality of legal services.

Main Areas of Practice:

The firm's lawyers are regularly recognized for their experience related to commercial leasing and real estate law, corporate law, tax law, finance law, private equity and M&A law, and more.

Commercial Real Estate & Development

The Commercial Real Estate & Development 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 firm's lawyers also have particular expertise in commercial leasing matters.

Koffman Kalef LLP work 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.

The team has 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.

Corporate/Commercial

The Corporate/Commercial team advises clients on all aspects of business law matters. The firm's lawyers apply their skills and experience to a broad range of regional, national, and international business sectors.

Koffman Kalef LLP's clients include public and private companies of varying sizes, partnerships, joint ventures; trade and professional associations; entrepreneurs and early-stage companies; and non-profit and charitable organizations operating locally, nationally, and internationally.

Lending/Insolvency

The Lending/Insolvency group advises on all aspects of banking and financial services. The firm's lawyers are engaged as senior counsel by a number of Canadian, U.S. and international banks on lending, enforcement and bank regulatory issues. In addition to banking and financial institutions, the firm's lawyers work with Crown corporations, lenders, private and corporate borrowers, leasing companies, and both domestic and international companies.

Members of the team were involved in the redevelopment of the downtown Vancouver waterfront and former Expo ‘86 lands. They have experience representing clients in the the acquisition by various income trusts of existing retail businesses. They have also acted for Schedule III Bank and Crown Corporations in multi-million dollar financing facilities for major farming and agriculture operations.

Tax/Trusts

The Tax / Trusts team has considerable experience with the taxation aspect of many complex business transactions, including domestic and cross-boarder acquisitions and corporate reorganizations. Their advice is frequently sought when structuring a wide variety of public and private company acquisitions, divisive reorganizations, spin-offs, and joint-ventures.

The firm's lawyers also have experience advising high net worth individuals on trust and estate planning matters. Their trust work includes preparation and advice in connection with domestic family, alter-ego, and joint spousal trusts. They advise non-resident and pre-immigration trusts, as well as “foreign investment entities.”

Securities/Corporate Finance/Mergers & Acquisitions

The Securities / Corporate Finance / Mergers & Acquisitions team represents a wide variety of clients on all aspects of corporate finance and M&A matters.

Koffman Kalef LLP'S clients operate across a broad range of industries, and include publicly traded issuers; unlisted issuers dealing exclusively in the exempt market; and registrants, including portfolio managers, investment fund managers, and exempt market dealers.

Litigation/Arbitration/Dispute Resolution

The firm's Litigation / Arbitration / Dispute Resolution team serves a wide variety of clients, including public and private corporations; Canadian financial institutions; creditors and debtors; school boards; shareholders, and trustees. The firm's litigators appear regularly before the British Columbia Supreme Court and Court of Appeal and have acted as counsel in numerous mediation and arbitration proceedings.

For more comprehensive detail on their specific areas of experience, please visit the firm's

website: www.kkbl.com

Contact Information

Commercial Real Estate:

Key Contact: Patrick Julian

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 604 891 3605

Key Contact: Erin Tait

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 604 891 3618

Corporate/Commercial:

Key Contact: Mark Wong