Course Chairs
Sergio C. Custodio — Bennett Jones LLP, Vancouver
Rachel V. Hutton — Stikeman Elliott LLP, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Sergio Custodio advises clients on a broad range of business matters, with a focus on real estate, commercial transactions, financings, infrastructure and acquisitions, and dispositions of businesses and assets. He is sought out for his ability to consistently close even the most complicated and fast-paced transactions.
Sergio provides general counsel and transactional advice to a wide variety of clients participating in diverse and often specialized and complex industry sectors including: transportation, hospitality, healthcare, education, and technology.
Executives and entrepreneurs count on Sergio to understand what it takes to keep them at the top of their game. They also rely on him to provide the strategic guidance that only experience working in a business can bring. This allows him to effectively advise on business matters, including those intersecting private business and governments.
Rachel Hutton is a partner in Stikeman Elliott's Real Estate Group. As a leading real estate lawyer, her practice specializes in the most complex and sophisticated real estate transactions serving a wide range of clients. She advises on all real estate matters including commercial, residential and mixed-use development projects, commercial leasing matters, capital project dispositions, and acquisitions. She is also active in the real estate finance and project finance markets, acting for both lenders and borrowers. Rachel has developed considerable expertise on the environmental and regulatory aspects of multiple development projects throughout BC and Western Canada.
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BC Real Estate Practice Manual
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A lawyer’s day-to-day guide to conveyancing
This publication is essential for: Lawyers looking for guidance on practice and procedure issues arising from conveyancing in BC
Current to: June 20, 2022
Although an efficient conveyancing practice may involve delegation to support staff, lawyers are ultimately responsible for ensuring a conveyance is properly managed and advice is sound. In addition to complete coverage of the necessary stages of a conveyance, British Columbia Real Estate Practice Manual guides you through practice issues you are most likely to confront that require your expertise, including discussion of real estate licensee regulation, tax considerations for both buyers and sellers, undertakings, and collapsing deals. Mainly focused on residential property, this resource also provides a summary of considerations in commercial conveyances.
With this resource, you will be able to:
- quickly spot and avoid common conveyancing practice errors and mistakes
- refer to statutes and cases to start your investigation of any substantive law issues that arise
- access over 125 conveyancing forms and precedents to save you time
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Highlights of the 2022 Update include:
- proposed federal Underused Housing Tax
- BC Financial Services Authority and Superintendent of Real Estate regulation of real estate licensees
- new tax clauses for real property purchase contract
- residential tenancy legislative amendments