Christina Kobi

Minden Gross LLP, Toronto, CANADA

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 and 2006) and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Recently she co-chaired the Breakfast Roundtables at the 2006 and 2007 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 - 2006) and American Lawyer Media Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.  More recently, Christina authored a paper entitled "The Ground Level Retail Store Lease in a Condominium Complex"forThe Six-Minute Commercial Leasing Lawyer(2006) conference and she co-authored a paper entitled "Restaurant Leasing" for The Six-Minute Commercial Leasing Lawyer (2005) conference.

Christina is listed in the 2006 Canadian Legal Directory LEXPERT as an "Up and Coming" 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

Toronto Commercial Real Estate Women's Association