Christina Kobi
Partner
Direct Line: (416) 369-4154
Fax Number: (416) 864-9223
ckobi@mindengross.com
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Practice Area:
Corporate Leasing; Commercial Leasing; Corporate/Commercial
Christina is a partner in the Commercial
Leasing Group. She is recognized in The Canadian
Legal Lexpert Directory as one of the leading
property leasing lawyers in Canada.
Christina specializes in all aspects of
commercial leasing (including retail, office,
industrial, telecommunications and solar panel
leasing) and tenancy dispute matters. Has
expertise in sophisticated and volume leasing
for major developers, and in managing and
coordinating major lease-related projects,
including due diligence lease reviews on behalf
of purchasers and lenders and in sale/leaseback
transactions. Performs these services for
corporations, privately held corporations,
financial institutions, developers, landlords,
tenants, franchisors and franchisees, including
Canada’s largest grocery retailer, one of North
America’s leading drug store operators and the
largest coffee house company in the world.
Active in the real estate industry, Christina is
currently co-chair of the ICSC Canadian Shopping
Centre Law Conference for 2011, Foundation Chair
of the Toronto Commercial Real Estate Women’s
Association (Toronto CREW) and she was recently
appointed to the Toronto CREW Board of Directors
for 2011.
Christina has been a guest lecturer and round
table leader at numerous conferences sponsored
by the Canadian Bar Association, Osgoode Hall
Law School Development Programme, Federated
Press, Law Society of Upper Canada (including
The Six-Minute Commercial Leasing Lawyer (2004,
2006 and 2007)) and the International Council of
Shopping Centers (ICSC). She co-chaired the
Breakfast Roundtables at the 2006 - 2009 ICSC
Canadian Law Conferences.
Christina is a frequent contributor to leasing
publications such as the Shopping Centre
Newsletter and the Commercial Real Estate
Section of the Legal Alert published by Insight
Press. She co-authored the chapter entitled “The
Distress Process – Exercising the Remedy” in
Distress – A Commercial Landlord’s Remedy
(Canada Law Book, 2001), as well as the Property
Leasing articles for The Canadian Legal Lexpert
Directory (1999 – 2002, 2004 - 2011) and The
Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500
Lawyers in Canada. More recently, Christina
recently authored papers entitled “Realty Tax
Allocation (The Indigo Case)”, “Mixed-Use
Project Cost Allocations”, “The Franchise
Triangle: What Franchisors, Franchisees and
Landlords want in a Lease”, “The Ground Level
Retail Store Lease in a Condominium Complex” for
The Six-Minute Commercial Leasing Lawyer
conferences in 2011, 2009, 2007, and 2006,
respectively. She also co-authored a paper
entitled “Exclusive Rights and Non-Competition
Clauses” in Shopping Centre Leases, Second
Edition (Canada Law Book, 2008).
Law School: University of Toronto
Year of Call: 1997
Year Joined the Firm: 2003 |
Affiliations:
Canadian Bar Association
Law Society of Upper Canada
International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
Toronto Commercial Real Estate Women’s
Association (TCREW)
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