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).  Recently she co-chaired the Breakfast Roundtables at the 2006 - 2008 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.  More recently, 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. She co-authored a paper entitled “Restaurant Leasing” for The Six-Minute Commercial Leasing Lawyer (2005) conference.

Christina is listed in The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory (2008) as a “Repeatedly recommended” leading practitioner in the area of commercial leasing.