Negotiating a Commercial Lease: Key Provisions for a Tenant

Summary

This practice note discusses some of the many critical provisions which a lawyer acting for a tenant in a commercial lease may want to consider when beginning negotiations with their counterpart acting for the landlord. This note is neither intended to be exhaustive nor to cover every single possible negotiation point. To attempt to do so would be impossible. It does highlight some of the more important or common critical provisions that usually find their way into such negotiations.