Nicholas R. Shon,

Nicholas is a partner in Lawson Lundell’s Real Estate Group and assists clients with all aspects of real estate development, financing, commercial leasing and municipal planning.

Nicholas’s experience includes assisting developers with the rezoning, subdivision, and marketing of development properties, acting for investors in connection with the acquisition and disposition of commercial properties, advising tenants and landlords in lease negotiations for industrial, retail and office properties.

Nicholas also regularly advises clients on the establishment of corporate structures appropriate for various real estate transactions, including the formation of limited partnerships, joint ventures and bare trusts.

Nicholas’s clients include family owned development companies, international developers, public companies, and non-profit housing societies.

• Law Society of British Columbia, Member
• Urban Development Institute (UDI), Member
• National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, Member
• Editor and frequent contributor to Lawson Lundell’s Real Estate Law Blog

• Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, Board of Directors

• Best Lawyers in Canada: Ones to Watch 2023-2024: recognised for Real Estate Law
  

• Acting for the Purchaser in an acquisition of a multi-tenant industrial development site in Vancouver, BC for a purchase price of $73,000,000.
• Acting for the Purchaser in an acquisition of a residential development site with a Vendor leaseback in Burnaby, BC for a purchase price of $94,000,000.
• Assisting a developer with a $100,000,000 construction facility for a 21 storey mixed use residential and commercial building in downtown Vancouver, BC
• Acting for the Vendor of a complex contaminated development site in Victoria, BC, which transaction included negotiation of density bonus security in favour of the Vendor and various indemnification issues in respect of contamination
• Assisting clients with the acquisition and disposition of commercial and industrial investment properties.
• Advising clients in a variety of general corporate and commercial matters, including the acquisition of businesses, preparation and negotiation of shareholder's agreements and limited partnership agreements.
• Acting for BC-based developers in respect to various residential and mixed-use developments, advising on the organization and formation of various development entities, rezoning and municipal matters, financing, pre-sale purchaser documentation in compliance with the Real Estate Development Marketing Act, and conveyance of completed strata lots to individual purchasers.
• Advising non-profit housing societies on corporate governance issues.