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The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory has recognized our real estate and lending group as being “Consistently Recommended”. Three of our senior real estate lawyers are recognized by Lexpert as being “Consistently Recommended” or “Repeatedly Recommended”. Our group members frequently speak or are panellists at seminars, conferences, and other continuing educational presentations to the legal profession, the development industry and the business community. The Continuing Legal Education Society of BC recently awarded Edward Wilson with its 2007 BC Leaders in Learning Award.
As a result of long-established working relationships with developers, contractors, industry, institutional and private investors and governments, our members are knowledgeable about issues relating to commercial, industrial, institutional, residential and mixed-used projects. With this experience, we are able to assist our clients with timely and efficient solutions on how best to structure all aspects of the acquisition, financing, rezoning, subdivision, development, leasing and sale of real property.
Our full range of real estate services is complemented by our firm’s experience in other practice areas including income tax, property tax and assessment, securities, litigation, corporate commercial, environmental, aboriginal, and labour and employment, which provide our clients access to a team of lawyers with the resources to handle the largest and most complex of real estate transactions. With this balance of services and senior and junior lawyers and a well trained staff, we provide our clients with a mix of judgment, experience, and energy customized to fit their needs.
Examples of our work include:
redevelopment of railway lands for industrial, commercial and residential uses;
acquisition, development, leasing and sale of shopping centres, office buildings, industrial and warehouse projects, single family homes projects and condominium units; hotels, seniors projects;
joint venture development of a former sawmill site into residential subdivision lots;
developments on First Nations lands;
remediation of environmentally contaminated sites and their subsequent development;
development of town centres on behalf of local governments;
complex air space subdivisions;
sale of major forest company's solid wood operations and related public financing;
negotiation of leases on behalf of both tenants and landlords;
negotiation and settlement of portfolios of CMHC insured terms loans across Canada aggregating a quarter of a billion dollars;
development financing for lenders (and borrowers) on all types of real estate projects;
the structuring of real estate investment trusts, MIC’s, income funds and other tax efficient vehicles; and
negotiation with regulatory authorities and environmental consultants to establish terms of reference and standards for site remediation.
More particularly, we have provided advice to clients relating to the following projects, all of which involved a substantial real estate component:
Aspac Developments Ltd. – the redevelopment of the Coal Harbour Lands for residential, commercial and industrial uses;
Vancouver Port Authority – the proposed redevelopment of the Portside lands in Vancouver for the Trade and Convention Centre;
the redevelopment and subsequent sale of the Metrotown Centre by Manulife Financial (shopping centre), Crossroads Shopping Centre by Fairchild Developments Ltd., Conference Plaza by Allied Holdings Ltd. (residential, commercial, hotel), Champlain Mall by PCI Realty Corp. (shopping centre) and Middlegate Mall by Clearview Investments Ltd. (shopping centre);
as legal counsel to Canada Place Corporation, we are asked to provide on-going advice relating to the Canada Place expansion and other infrastructure projects;
the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre Expansion Program;
advising the British Columbia Real Estate Association in its discussion with government that resulted in the new Real Estate Services Act;
Penreal Capital Management Ltd., a leading market investment manager, in a transaction whereby its client, 2725312 Canada Ltd. sold Langley Gate Mall in Langley, B.C. to RioKim Holdings (Langley Gate) Inc. for $25,250,000.00.
View a listing of team members in this practice area.
For more information contact John H. Fraser 604.631.9153 or jhfraser@lawsonlundell.com.
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