Stuart Chaimberg

Stuart has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial leasing, and deals with matters relating to retail, office, industrial, restaurant, mixed use and hospitality properties.  His involvement encompasses all stages of the commercial lease process. Stuart’s practice is evenly balanced between representing local, national and international landlords and tenants, thus enabling him to understand the underlying position of the other party to the transaction, and provide practical advice to resolve outstanding issues.

Stuart is often called upon to assist with large scale commercial transactions that have a leasing component, as well as multi-location and redevelopment projects.  In connection with such transactions, he has been intimately involved with the acquisition due diligence process.

Stuart has developed a specialized expertise in the retail industry.  He advises local, national and international retailers, including U.S. and international retailers expanding their business to Canada.  Stuart has dealt with leases for high-end luxury brands and “first to market” sites.  He counsels clients in respect of new retail format development concepts, dealing with issues such as “showrooming”, “bricks and clicks” and traditional shopping centre tenants entering into mixed use developments.

Stuart has been at the forefront of assisting clients navigate through COVID-19 related issues, both from the landlord’s and the tenant’s perspective.

Stuart has been called upon to present at industry events, including at the Law Society of Ontario’s Six-Minute Commercial Leasing Lawyer, the ICSC Canadian Law Conference and Open Forum Ouvert. As well, he has co-authored the Quebec Legal Update papers that have been presented at the ICSC Canadian Law Conference since 2014.