Direct Tel. (604) 643-3164
Email pmt@cwilson.com

800 - 885 West Georgia Street
Vancouver B.C. V6C 3H1
Main Tel. (604) 687-5700
Fax (604) 687-6314

www.cwilson.com

Area of Practice

Commercial Real Estate

Representative Work

Peter's practice is focused on representing developers, landlords and investors in connection with a wide range of real estate projects in British Columbia. He has extensive experience with site acquisitions and advising on development and project sales matters for mixed use, residential, commercial and industrial projects and related acquisition and construction financing. Peter creates project-appropriate ownership structures for his clients, including limited partnerships, joint ventures and bare trusts. Peter has additional expertise in land assemblies, development permit and rezoning matters, subdivision and air space subdivisions, strata titling and bare land strata plans, zoning matters, heritage development and related density transfers, development on First Nation lands, Crown land acquisitions and other Crown tenure matters.

Peter has negotiated a significant number of offers to lease and leases on behalf of landlords and shopping centre developers, including leases for power centre premises, pad sites, anchor tenants and national and international retailers. Peter has also authored standard form leases for various regional shopping centres and office buildings.

Recently, Peter has represented developers in connection with:

• the acquisition, development and/or related project sales for various residential, industrial and mixed use strata titled and/or air space subdivided developments in Vancouver, Richmond, Surrey, White Rock, Langley, Burnaby, New Westminster, Victoria, Coquitlam, Pitt Meadows and the Okanagan Valley.

• the acquisition, redevelopment and/or conversion of Vancouver, Victoria and New Westminster heritage buildings, and related heritage density transfer matters.

• the site acquisition and development for new shopping centres in Victoria, Kamloops, Westbank (First Nations lands) and Kelowna and related leasing to national and international rosters of tenants.

Profile

Peter Tolensky is a Partner in Clark Wilson LLP's Commercial Real Estate Practice Group, and has been with the firm since his articles in 1999. He was born and raised in Montreal and spent his undergraduate years at the University of Western Ontario where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1996. Peter then moved to Vancouver to pursue his legal studies at the University of British Columbia. He graduated from UBC with his Bachelor of Laws in 1999 and was called to the British Columbia Bar in 2000. Peter speaks and writes French.

Memberships & Associations

Member, Law Society of British Columbia (2000)

Co-Chair, CBA/BCCS Air-Space Subdivision Task Force

Immediate Past Chair, Canadian Bar Association, Vancouver Real Property Subsection

Contributing author to the British Columbia Due Diligence Deskbook

Member and Speaker, Urban Development Institute

Member and Speaker, National Association of Industrial and Office Properties

Member, International Council of Shopping Centres