Stephen Messinger

Minden Gross LLP, Toronto, CANADA

Stephen is a member of our Commercial Leasing Group where he focuses his practice on leasing and commercial development.

Stephen acts for many of Canada's largest and most well-known developers, property and asset managers, retail chains, banks, trust companies and pension funds. He has appeared before provincial court judges to discuss lease trends and has appeared in court on several occasions as an expert witness on commercial leasing matters

Stephen has been a lecturer at the Continuing Education Series of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Bar Admission Course in Real Estate. He is also an Executive Committee member and the Special Initiatives Chairman of the Canadian Division of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), as well as the 1998 and 2001 recipient of its Distinguished Service Award. Formerly, he was the Co-Chairman for several years of the ICSC Canadian Law Conference and was the ICSC Ontario Provincial Director and Canadian Division Operations Chairman. He was on the Task Force to review and amend the Bankruptcy Act. Stephen is often quoted in a variety of publications, including The Globe and Mail, The Financial Post, The Law Times and The National Canadian Bar Association. He has written numerous articles for the Shopping Centre Management Insider, the Commercial Lease Law Insider and the Commercial Tenant?s Lease Insider publications on many issues relating to property leasing. Stephen is on the Editorial Board for and contributor to the publication Shopping Centre Leases, Volumes 1 & 2. He is currently a member of the Georgetown University Law Center Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute Advisory Board.

Stephen is named as one of Canada's most frequently recommended property leasing lawyers by the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory and the American Lawyer Media's Guide to the Leading 500 lawyers in Canada.