Commercial Real Estate

When the stakes are high, top real estate players across Canada and the US turn to our team. Our sights are always on the deal as we fearlessly tackle issues and negotiate agreements that work.

Complex transactions involving significant properties and portfolios call for a team with broad expertise in tax, mergers and acquisitions, project finance, capital markets and environmental law. Whatever kind of challenge you’re taking on – acquisition, disposition, joint venture, financing, construction and development, or creating a REIT – you can count on us for agility and speed, grounded in deep experience.

We’ve forged long-standing relationships with many of the largest and most sophisticated institutional real estate investors and developers. And we advise most of the country’s largest pension funds and institutional investors, both domestically and internationally. Immersing ourselves in your issues, we make complicated legal situations clear, pay close attention to the details and help you build a sound strategy for what comes next.

Representative Work

Dollarama L.P., 2024

Acting for Dollarama L.P. with its acquisition of lands in the Calgary metropolitan region, Alberta for a total cash consideration of C$46,700,000. Such lands will be used to build a warehouse and second distribution centre to service stores in Western Canada. The construction of the logistics hub, excluding land acquisition costs, is currently anticipated to require total capital expenditures of approximately C$450,000,000.

Claridge IC Properties 4, Limited Partnership, 2024

Acted for Claridge IC Properties 4, Limited Partnership with the acquisition, in a joint venture with Colonnade Bridgeport, of a property in the City of Ottawa, for the purposes of the development of a residential project comprising approximately 127 rental units.

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