Remedies Upon Default of a Commercial Lease by a Tenant: What to Do When a Tenant Abandons

Author: D. Ross McGowan and Karen Bradley
Current to: May 2023

Here to ensure you stay on top of your law game is our latest Practice Point.

“Remedies Upon Default of a Commercial Lease by a Tenant: What to Do When a Tenant Abandons” comes as part CLEBC Online Course Materials and was presented at CLEBC’s recent course Commercial Leasing Disputes 2023.

This in-depth paper was prepared by D. Ross McGowan and Karen Bradley of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. As they lay out, commercial leasing exposes an unwary practitioner to a potential minefield of risk and liability arising from its intertwined history of old feudal land law concepts merged with modern commercial principles.

As such, this paper reviews a landlord’s remedies on default of a tenant, focusing on default as a result of abandonment by the tenant.

If you practice in commercial real estate, don’t miss this extremely useful and practical paper!

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