Commercial Leasing: Annotated Precedents--ONLINE

Leading commercial lawyers open their files to help you draft your lease

This publication is essential for: lawyers who work in commercial leasing in BC 

Current to: August 15, 2025

Imagine being able to access a vault of commercial lease precedents from some of BC's leading commercial lawyers. Commercial Leasing: Annotated Precedents offers you a premiere collection of samples for an offer to lease, full leases for various scenarios, agreements related to leasing, and special commercial lease provisions, along with commentary about concerns such as tax, financing, default, and registration.

With an online subscription to Commercial Leasing: Annotated Precedents, your firm will be able to:

• conveniently access detailed guidance at any time and from any location, search for relevant information, link directly to significant legislation, case law, and websites, and download precedents
• understand commercial lease clauses you use every day and know exactly why each is there
  
• improve your negotiating position by understanding both landlord and tenant points of view
  
• know what's critical to include in your lease and what you can afford to give up in negotiation

Subscribe today and draft commercial leases like seasoned counsel! View a sample from this book!

Highlights of the 2025 Update include:

• case law, legislation and discussion brought current to August 15, 2025, including new and revised annotations and the addition of over 20 new cases
• updated form of First Nations lease with substantially expanded discussion and annotations
• added discussion regarding amendments to the Competition Act, particularly with respect to the use of restrictive covenants and exclusive use agreements
• new forms for the registration of leases

Annual subscription rates are based on firm size. A monthly payment option is available.

Online subscribers can purchase a print copy of Commercial Leasing: Annotated Precedents for 20% off its regular price.

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CLEBC Editor
Jennifer Thorne
jthorne@cle.bc.ca

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1. Offer to Lease Commercial Premises

2. Shopping Centre Leases

3. Office Lease

4. Multi-Tenant Industrial Lease

5. Pro-Tenant, Stand-Alone Commercial Lease

6. Ground Lease

7. First Nations Lease

8. Assignment of Lease

9. Surrender and Lease Modification Agreements

10. Tenant Option Rights

11. Special Tenant Rights

12. Environmental Provisions

13. Operating Cost Provisions

14. GST and Commercial Leasing

15. Arbitration and Mediation

16. Extension and Renewal Provisions

17. Lease Financing

18. Lease Default Remedies and Lease Notices

19. Guarantees and Indemnities

20. Registration of Leases

21. Strata Clauses

Tables
Case Table
Statutes and Related Material Table

Editorial Board
Sarah Batut — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Catherine Gibson — DLA Piper (Canada) LLP, Vancouver
Scott D. Smythe — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver

Contributing Authors
Kristian K. Arciaga — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
Edna S.C. Cheung — Goluboff & Mazzei, West Vancouver
Beverly G. Ellingson — Terra Law Corporation, Vancouver
Derek Graham — Pushor Mitchell, LLP, Kelowna
Ben Hagen — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Sarah W. Jones — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Erin Kotz — Koffman Kalef LLP, Vancouver 
Selina Lee-Andersen — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Caolan Lemke — Woodward and Company Lawyers LLP, Victoria
Emily Lisi — Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Vancouver
Alexander Mackoff — Terra Law Corporation, Vancouver
D. Ross McGowan — Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Vancouver
James D. Piers — James Piers Law Corporation, North Vancouver
Daniel S. Remick — Koffman Kalef LLP, Vancouver 
Matthew Singerman — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Scott D. Smythe — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Paul Tonita — Pushor Mitchell LLP, Kelowna
Connor Watt — Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Sharon E. White, KC — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Jennifer Wong — Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
Dennis Yee — Bennett Jones LLP, Vancouver
Paul L.Y. Yeung — Stikeman Elliott LLP, Vancouver