Practice Profile
Real Estate
The Cassels Brock Real Estate Group is an accomplished team of lawyers that provide expert and practical advice to a diverse group of clients.
Our depth of experience in all areas of real property law enables us to serve a wide range of clients in the real estate industry including banks, institutional lenders, national retailers, developers and builders, crown corporations, educational and other public institutions and REITs.
We provide experienced, ongoing advice to our clients in all types of real property transactions relating to all asset classes. Our group’s expertise includes:
- Commercial acquisitions and dispositions
- All aspects of real estate financing, including development, construction, leasehold financing and syndicated loans
- Commercial development and land assembly
- Commercial leasing, including ground leases and office, retail and shopping centre leases
- Residential condominium and subdivision development
- Recovery work for secured lenders
- Joint ventures
- Real estate taxation issues
Our lawyers have provided real estate expertise in respect of many prominent commercial transactions, including the following representative sample:
- Acting for a university on a complex ground-lease proposal to redevelop lands for residential, retail and hotel uses
- Acting on behalf of professional sports teams in the acquisition and development of arenas
- Acting for a syndicate of lenders on a complex project financing of a major regional shopping centre
- Acting for a major Canadian retailer in the acquisition and development of its “big box” locations in shopping centres throughout the country
- Acting for lenders with respect to large financings to a REIT of leasehold interests in multi-residential complexes throughout the GTA
- Acting for a REIT in respect of its property acquisitions including office and industrial properties throughout the country
- Acting in conjunction with an acquisition of a parcel of land for construction of a film studio targeting large scale film production