Ian D. Toms

Ian D. Toms

Mr. Toms provides creative and cost effective solutions during negotiation and administration of commercial realty lease arrangements on behalf of tenants or landlords. Specific areas of expertise are:

  • landlord-tenant negotiations 
  • bricks and mortar building inspection
  • premises site selection
  • lease document drafting
  • critical analysis of lease document
  • lease term renewal/extension negotiation
  • offer to lease negotiation
  • specialties
    • early lease termination,
    • lease assignment,
    • relocation negotiation,
    • lease amending (example expansion, contraction)
    • lease audit,
    • arbitration, litigation,

Mr. Toms uses an effective, practical and common sense approach based on

  • completion of 1000’s of lease negotiations over 25 years
    • on behalf of national chain retail and medical professional tenants 
    • in 28 North American jurisdictions from Hawaii to Rhode Island and Alaska to Florida, with specific focus on GTA,
    • full range of domestic through offshore private and institutional landlords,
    • single tenant, multi tenant, retail strip, enclosed retail centres to office medical professional buildings
  • licensed as a Broker by the Real Estate Council of Ontario
  • continuing education at the Ontario College of Real Estate
  • B.Sc. (Hons) University of Guelph
  • Published 50 articles concerning lease issues
  • 10 years as a multi-unit national retail chain tenant,
  • several years as a commercial landlord

Ashley Scott

Ms. Scott provides real property agreement preparation, review, revision, critical analysis and administration, as well as collection and preparation of demographic and comparative real property data.

Ms. Scott qualifications include:

  • review, analysis and revision of hundreds of real property lease documents over the past 3 years
  • licensed as a Realty Sales Representative by the Real Estate Council of Ontario
  • continuing education at the Ontario College of Real Estate.  She graduated in B.A.(Hons) York University
  • employment at a law firm completing real estate transactions