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 acts as counsel to landlords,
tenants, developers, property managers,
franchisors and franchisees. Christina has
extensive experience in drafting and negotiating
leases and related ancillary documentation. Her
practice also includes assisting in due
diligence issues on the acquisition of real
estate.
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.
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)