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.