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Catherine E. Bray
Téléphone
416.367.6164
Télécopieur
416.361.2434
Courriel
cbray@blg.com
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Background
Catherine Bray is a partner at our Toronto office. Catherine is a Regional Leader of our Toronto and Waterloo offices' Commercial Real Estate Group. Catherine was called to the Ontario Bar in 1985.
Areas of Practice
Catherine practises in the area of commercial real estate law and secured transactions. She has extensive experience in acquisitions and dispositions including sale/lease back transactions and contaminated and brownfield sites; structuring legal arrangements; financing involving real estate including construction lending; ground leases, leases, subleases and advising on lease remedies.
Professional Experience
Commercial Real Estate
- Structuring legal arrangements: Structuring legal arrangements for a variety of clients, including corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships and joint ventures, including preparation and negotiation of shareholder's agreements, partnership and joint venture agreements. Recently provided advice on and implementation of tax saving structures for institutions involving real estate.
- Asset Acquisition: Structuring, negotiating and preparing various types of agreements and documentation respecting asset purchases and sales including office buildings, warehouses, manufacturing and industrial sites. Specific negotiations and addressing issues respecting contaminated land and brownfield developments.
- Financing: Structuring, negotiating and preparing financing agreements and associated agreements and loan documentation and security involving real estate such as office, warehouse, industrial, multi residential. Extensive experience in construction loans and mortgages of leasehold interests.
- Disposition: Structuring, negotiating and completing sale transactions including sale/lease back transactions for major Canadian companies like Bell Canada and Zurich Insurance.
- Variety of Developments: Office and industrial developments; not-for-profit housing developments; mixed use and multi use projects, including public private partnerships.
- Land Development: Land development including acquisitions, development agreements, construction agreements, financing and reciprocal agreements.
- Environmental Compliance: Advising regarding legal aspects of the acquisition, disposition and compliance respecting contaminated lands and brownfield sites.
- Title: Opinions on title and negotiation of commercial title insurance to solve title issues.
- Clients: Clients include institutional owners such as Waterfront Toronto, OCAD University, The Hospital for Sick Children, several lending institutions including Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada and HSBC Bank Canada including $200 million in construction loans for CityPlace, Toronto and public and private landowners like Arkema Canada Inc. and pharmaceutical companies.
Leasing and Licensing
- Ground Leases: Preparing and negotiating ground leases and construction agreements with the City of Toronto on behalf of a private corporation for a mixed-use re-development and for a developer in a ground lease and lease back for Canada Post's head office. Acting on behalf of tenants of ground leases, purchasers of ground lease interests, lenders on ground leases and subtenants under ground leases.
- Landlords: Developing and negotiating standard form offers to lease and leases for office and retail sites on behalf of landlords; negotiating offers to lease and leases on behalf of Landlords.
- Tenants: Developing standard offers to lease for tenants, work with corporate non-legal staff respecting leasing matters, negotiating and drafting offers to lease and leases on behalf of tenants for office, retail and industrial sites.
- Lease Defaults: Advising on and negotiating solutions resulting from lease defaults by landlords and by tenants.
- Air Space Licences: Negotiation and preparation of air space licences.
- Communications Leases: Negotiation of communications tower leases.
- Native Lands Licences: Negotiation of interests in lands with Native Canadians including pipelines for Shell Canada and Air Products Inc.
- Clients: Negotiation of leases and licences for various corporations including, Canada Post head office in Ottawa, The Hospital for Sick Children, The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation, OCAD University, AGF Management Limited, Restaurants in BCE Place, Toronto, Rideau Centre, Ottawa, York Mills and several other locations in the USA, Oxford Properties Group, Professional Engineers Ontario, Air Products Inc., Shell Canada, Revios Reinsurance Canada Ltd., Imperial Life Assurance Company of Canada and Guarantee Company of North America head office lease.
Professional and Community Activities
- National Leader of Borden Ladner Gervais' National Real Estate Leasing Group.
- Regional Practice Group Leader of Borden Ladner Gervais' Commercial Real Estate Group – Toronto and Waterloo (over 20 lawyers).
- Toronto Leader of Borden Ladner Gervais' National Real Estate Lending Group.
- Member of American Bar Association Ground Lease Committee; American Bar Association International Real Estate Committee; and American Bar Association Green Lease Committee.
- Co-chair of Canadian Institute’s Advanced Commercial Leasing Conference (Toronto, May 2011).
- Speaker (and panel organizer) at Canadian Institutes Advanced Commercial Leasing Conference on Exit Strategies for Tenants (Toronto, May 2011).
- Planning Committee Member for RealLeasing 2011.
- Speaker at the International Council of Shopping Centers Canadian Law Conference on differences in USA and Ontario leasing practices and law in February 2011.
- Chair, OCAD University's “Whodunit” Art Exposition and Gala Evening (2009 and 2010).
- Invitation only attendance at Georgetown Law's Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute (April 2010, Washington DC).
- Speaker at the RealLeasing Conference on differences in USA and Ontario leasing practice in September 2010.
- Speaker at the International Council of Shopping Centers Canadian Law Conference on differences in Ontario and Quebec property laws as they relate to leasing in February 2010.
- Speaker at seminars on Construction Liens and the impact on Financing.
- Speaker at American Bar Association Conference on differences in American and Canadian leasing practices in August 1998.
- Contributor to "Tenant's Rights and Remedies in a Commercial Lease - A Practical Guide", edited by H. Haber, published by Canada Law Book, 1998.
- Chair of Construction Workshop at the International Conference of Shopping Centres on March 6, 1997.
- Speaker at Canadian Bar Association Seminars on Commercial Leasing, November 1990 and April 1995: "Tenant's Rights when the Landlord Defaults" and "Bullet Proofing Commercial Leases".
- Instructor at the Law Society of Upper Canada Bar Admission Course for Real Estate, 1989 and 1990.
- Member of the Ontario Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
- Counsel to and lifelong member of the Ontario Historical Society and the Ontario Genealogical Society.
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Background
Catherine Bray is a partner at our Toronto office. Catherine is a Regional Leader of our Toronto and Waterloo offices' Commercial Real Estate Group. Catherine was called to the Ontario Bar in 1985.
Areas of Practice
Catherine practises in the area of commercial real estate law and secured transactions. She has extensive experience in acquisitions and dispositions including sale/lease back transactions and contaminated and brownfield sites; structuring legal arrangements; financing involving real estate including construction lending; ground leases, leases, subleases and advising on lease remedies.
Professional Experience
Commercial Real Estate
- Structuring legal arrangements: Structuring legal arrangements for a variety of clients, including corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships and joint ventures, including preparation and negotiation of shareholder's agreements, partnership and joint venture agreements. Recently provided advice on and implementation of tax saving structures for institutions involving real estate.
- Asset Acquisition: Structuring, negotiating and preparing various types of agreements and documentation respecting asset purchases and sales including office buildings, warehouses, manufacturing and industrial sites. Specific negotiations and addressing issues respecting contaminated land and brownfield developments.
- Financing: Structuring, negotiating and preparing financing agreements and associated agreements and loan documentation and security involving real estate such as office, warehouse, industrial, multi residential. Extensive experience in construction loans and mortgages of leasehold interests.
- Disposition: Structuring, negotiating and completing sale transactions including sale/lease back transactions for major Canadian companies like Bell Canada and Zurich Insurance.
- Variety of Developments: Office and industrial developments; not-for-profit housing developments; mixed use and multi use projects, including public private partnerships.
- Land Development: Land development including acquisitions, development agreements, construction agreements, financing and reciprocal agreements.
- Environmental Compliance: Advising regarding legal aspects of the acquisition, disposition and compliance respecting contaminated lands and brownfield sites.
- Title: Opinions on title and negotiation of commercial title insurance to solve title issues.
- Clients: Clients include institutional owners such as Waterfront Toronto, OCAD University, The Hospital for Sick Children, several lending institutions including Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada and HSBC Bank Canada including $200 million in construction loans for CityPlace, Toronto and public and private landowners like Arkema Canada Inc. and pharmaceutical companies.
Leasing and Licensing
- Ground Leases: Preparing and negotiating ground leases and construction agreements with the City of Toronto on behalf of a private corporation for a mixed-use re-development and for a developer in a ground lease and lease back for Canada Post's head office. Acting on behalf of tenants of ground leases, purchasers of ground lease interests, lenders on ground leases and subtenants under ground leases.
- Landlords: Developing and negotiating standard form offers to lease and leases for office and retail sites on behalf of landlords; negotiating offers to lease and leases on behalf of Landlords.
- Tenants: Developing standard offers to lease for tenants, work with corporate non-legal staff respecting leasing matters, negotiating and drafting offers to lease and leases on behalf of tenants for office, retail and industrial sites.
- Lease Defaults: Advising on and negotiating solutions resulting from lease defaults by landlords and by tenants.
- Air Space Licences: Negotiation and preparation of air space licences.
- Communications Leases: Negotiation of communications tower leases.
- Native Lands Licences: Negotiation of interests in lands with Native Canadians including pipelines for Shell Canada and Air Products Inc.
- Clients: Negotiation of leases and licences for various corporations including, Canada Post head office in Ottawa, The Hospital for Sick Children, The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation, OCAD University, AGF Management Limited, Restaurants in BCE Place, Toronto, Rideau Centre, Ottawa, York Mills and several other locations in the USA, Oxford Properties Group, Professional Engineers Ontario, Air Products Inc., Shell Canada, Revios Reinsurance Canada Ltd., Imperial Life Assurance Company of Canada and Guarantee Company of North America head office lease.
Professional and Community Activities
- National Leader of Borden Ladner Gervais' National Real Estate Leasing Group.
- Regional Practice Group Leader of Borden Ladner Gervais' Commercial Real Estate Group – Toronto and Waterloo (over 20 lawyers).
- Toronto Leader of Borden Ladner Gervais' National Real Estate Lending Group.
- Member of American Bar Association Ground Lease Committee; American Bar Association International Real Estate Committee; and American Bar Association Green Lease Committee.
- Co-chair of Canadian Institute’s Advanced Commercial Leasing Conference (Toronto, May 2011).
- Speaker (and panel organizer) at Canadian Institutes Advanced Commercial Leasing Conference on Exit Strategies for Tenants (Toronto, May 2011).
- Planning Committee Member for RealLeasing 2011.
- Speaker at the International Council of Shopping Centers Canadian Law Conference on differences in USA and Ontario leasing practices and law in February 2011.
- Chair, OCAD University's “Whodunit” Art Exposition and Gala Evening (2009 and 2010).
- Invitation only attendance at Georgetown Law's Advanced Commercial Leasing Institute (April 2010, Washington DC).
- Speaker at the RealLeasing Conference on differences in USA and Ontario leasing practice in September 2010.
- Speaker at the International Council of Shopping Centers Canadian Law Conference on differences in Ontario and Quebec property laws as they relate to leasing in February 2010.
- Speaker at seminars on Construction Liens and the impact on Financing.
- Speaker at American Bar Association Conference on differences in American and Canadian leasing practices in August 1998.
- Contributor to "Tenant's Rights and Remedies in a Commercial Lease - A Practical Guide", edited by H. Haber, published by Canada Law Book, 1998.
- Chair of Construction Workshop at the International Conference of Shopping Centres on March 6, 1997.
- Speaker at Canadian Bar Association Seminars on Commercial Leasing, November 1990 and April 1995: "Tenant's Rights when the Landlord Defaults" and "Bullet Proofing Commercial Leases".
- Instructor at the Law Society of Upper Canada Bar Admission Course for Real Estate, 1989 and 1990.
- Member of the Ontario Bar Association and the American Bar Association.
- Counsel to and lifelong member of the Ontario Historical Society and the Ontario Genealogical Society.
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