Real Estate Expertise
A Strategic Legal Partner For Real Estate Companies with Growing Portfolios
Bring on a fractional lawyer who understands your business and is ready to roll up their sleeves to get the work done.
What Does a Fractional In-House Counsel Do?
In-House
Fractional Counsel
Ongoing legal support that functions like an in-house team, deeply familiar with your operations, culture, and contracts. Ideal for businesses that need consistent legal guidance without the commitment of full-time staff.
Leasing & Property
Management Support
Legal guidance for companies with real estate portfolios offering leasing and property management services. From negotiating commercial leases to managing service contracts, get reliable support that protects income, reduces risk, and keeps operations running smoothly.
Commercial Real
Estate Management
Practical and cost effective management of the whole property life cycle:
Acquisitions, leasing, contract administration, and financing.
Portfolio Risk Mitigation
Establish practical safeguards across your real estate holdings. This includes standardizing documents, training staff on their obligations, and resolving landlord-tenant disputes. We also develop easy-to-use templates so your team can confidently handle routine matters.
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Personal Legal Support
Does Any of This Sound Familiar?
Big bills for routine tasks
Lawyers that can’t offer practical advice or focus on getting deals done
You’ve got steady work, but not enough to bring someone on full-time
The cost of outsourcing doesn’t make sense
Legal Strategy
We take the time to understand your goals, your vision, and where you want to take the business. Whether you're scaling, exploring new markets, bringing on investors, or refining your internal structure, Colexiv acts as your sounding board and legal guide.
A fractional in-house counsel understands your business goals, policies, standards and practical realities and provides business minded advice with all of those things in mind. Rather than being reactive, an in-house counsel gives you a sounding board for ideas, so that projects are carried out with risk mitigation and strategy already integrated. Instead of reacting to issues, they proactively guide decisions and reduce risk across the organization, with consideration for your business practices. Their role typically includes:
Cross-Canada Insight
Support from someone who knows the industry, including leases, contracts, acquisitions, financing, and risk management.
No retainers. No hidden fees. Just clear pricing for real legal work when you need it.
Work with a senior lawyer with 20 years of experience, Bay Street training, and in-house roles at leading real estate companies.
Trusted by real estate and property management teams across the country, with a strong understanding of regional differences and industry demands.
It’s time to work with a lawyer who integrates with your team, knows your business, and is ready to deliver practical, integrated legal support that gets deals done.
Services
Strategic Insight, Not Legalese
Practical Legal Support for Real Estate Companies with Growing Portfolios and Ambitious Plans
About Ilana Cohen
Ilana Cohen is the founder of Colexiv and a seasoned real estate lawyer trained on Bay Street with extensive in-house experience. She has negotiated deals, managed legal departments, and understands the pressure points and practicalities of operating real estate portfolios and leasing.
Ilana built Colexiv to offer “right-sized” legal counsel to mid-sized companies seeking continuity, and a practical hands on legal partner, who will help in a more effective and efficient way than your average Bay Street lawyer. Her approach is no-nonsense and commercially minded, rooted in a real understanding of what moves deals forward and what holds them back. She’s mindful of commercial realities and understands the importance of getting deals done and making businesses successful.
She was called to the bar in both Alberta and Ontario and has worked with a range of clients, from multinationals to companies across various industries. Ilana supports businesses nationwide, with a particular focus on Alberta and Ontario, offering practical, business-focused legal guidance.
An Ounce Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
Why Choose Colexiv
No Surprise Costs
Contract Review
& Negotiation
Risk Management
& Compliance
Employment
& HR Support
Corporate
Governance
Dispute
Management
Ensuring agreements protect your interests and move deals forward efficiently.
Identifying potential legal risks and ensuring your business meets regulatory requirements, while proactively staying on top of the law and ensuring your business avoids unnecessary risk.
Advising on hiring, terminations, policies, and workplace disputes.
Supporting board operations, corporate records, and shareholder matters.
Managing litigation, negotiations, or settlements to protect the company.
Ongoing Support That Integrates Seamlessly
Colexiv embeds into your team, bringing continuity, consistency, speed, and strategic and practical legal guidance.
Colexiv translates legal complexity into plain language and practical advice and acts as a switchboard that connects siloed teams through shared legal concerns.
Fixed-Fee, Fractional Model
Avoid expensive legal bills with predictable, value-driven alternative pricing models.
Bay Street Pedigree
Colexiv is backed by a Bay Street trained lawyer who has worked with businesses of all sizes, from startups to multinationals, both public and private, across the country. She brings a grounded, practical perspective shaped by decades of legal and business experience.
Built for Owners, Tenants and Property Managers
From lease issues to complex deals, Colexiv understands how your business runs and the legal challenges that come with it.
It’s an embedded legal service model, offering day to day support, strategy, and legal risk management on a flexible, part-time basis. You get all the benefits of senior in-house counsel who will roll up their sleeves and be your go-to person without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
We work with private equity-backed or mid-sized real estate companies who own or operate portfolios of commercial real estate, as well as property managers and real estate-adjacent firms like architecture and engineering companies.
Colexiv goes beyond project-based legal support, it is an ongoing regular legal department available to you on an as-needed basis that understands your business and portfolio intimately. Colexiv integrates into your business like in-house counsel, learns your business and portfolio, understands your operations, and offers ongoing continuity so you’re not getting cookie cutter advice.
Yes. From negotiating and finalizing leases to advising on acquisitions or organizational risk, Colexiv covers the full range of in-house counsel needs. We become a member of your team that will roll up our sleeves and do the work, without the full-time cost.
Primarily in Ontario, Alberta and BC, but we serve clients nationally and beyond who operate Canadian real estate portfolios.
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