Paul Kolida

Paul Kolida is an Edmonton-based Partner whose practice focuses on general litigation and insurance. He advises clients throughout Alberta and Canada across the insurance and banking sectors, in addition to handling a broad range of general litigation matters for businesses of all sizes. Paul maintains an active arbitration practice with experience in both ad hoc arbitrations and international arbitrations under the International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Rules.

Paul has experience across a broad range of matters, including:

• Complex commercial litigation matters
• Shareholder, corporate and collection matters
• Construction disputes
• Product liability matters

Paul is well-versed in the Mobile Home Sites Tenancies Act (MHSTA), which sets out the rights and responsibilities of those who own a mobile home and rent the mobile home site from a landlord. He works with owners and managers of modular and manufactured home communities in a variety of areas, including:

• Manufactured home community lease enforcement, including terminating leases for non-payment of rent, terminating leases for breaches of lease agreements and recovering sites when homes are abandoned
• Commercial lease enforcement, including terminating commercial leases and landlord’s distress seizures
• Unsecured debt recovery and judgment enforcement for debt actions, including commencing actions and enforcement of judgments
• Subrogated insurance claims, including commencing actions and enforcement of judgments
• Personal property security enforcement, including the seizure of secured goods
• Enforcement of residential manufactured home leases
• Enforcement of debt actions