Originally presented on September 22, 2009, this highly popular program will be re-broadcast on Monday, April 12, 2010.

No one knows how long the economic recession will last. But clearly, the legal strategies and best practices that were appropriate for boom times are not helpful when new kinds of issues are raised by clients or third parties in financial trouble. Moreover, the shifting balance of power between income property vendors and purchasers, borrowers and lenders, landlords and tenants, debtors and creditors, makes the practice of commercial real estate a whole new kind of game.

If you’re under 40, you’ve never practised in an environment like the present one. And if you’re over 40, you’ll likely benefit from a thorough refresher and update on areas that are newly relevant again — such as mortgage remedies, landlord/tenant remedies and real estate transactions conducted under the shadow of insolvency proceedings.


For these reasons, Osgoode Professional Development has assembled an expert faculty to rethink the critical areas and issues of commercial real estate practice – both in terms of deals and business relationships that are just coming together or which appear to be working, and of others that are visibly in trouble, or headed for it. Special attention will be given to the problems raised by insolvency situations and/or involving ‘distressed’ real estate.


Make no mistake, this concise program will be your best single source of up-to-the-minute information, valuable insights and practical strategies for ensuring that you and your clients stay on top as the ground continues to shift beneath your feet. Don’t miss it!

Chairs

Simon P. Crawford, Bennett Jones LLP
Dana S. Porter, Stikeman Elliott LLP
Walter M. Traub, Goldman Sloan Nash & Haber LLP

 

OPD Program Lawyer

Paul Truster

pstruster@osgoode.yorku.ca