Christina Kobi

Christina has been active as a guest lecturer and round table leader at conferences sponsored by the Canadian Bar Association, Osgoode Hall Law School Development Programme, 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 - 2008) and American Lawyer Media Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.  Christina authored papers entitled “The Franchise Triangle: What Franchisors, Franchisees and Landlords want in a Lease” and “The Ground Level Retail Store Lease in a Condominium Complex” for The Six-Minute Commercial Leasing Lawyer conferences in 2007 and 2006, respectively.  More recently, she co-authored a chapter entitled "Exclusive Rights and Non-Competition Clauses" in Shopping Centre Leases, Second Edition (Canada Law Book, 2008).

She is co-chair of the 2010 ICSC Canadian Shopping Centre Law Conference and was recently appointed Foundation Chair of the Toronto Commercial Real Estate Women’s Association (TCREW).

Christina is listed in The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory as a “Repeatedly recommended” leading practitioner in the area of commercial leasing.