Real Estate

commercial real estate

Acting on behalf of lenders, developers, landlords, buyers and sellers, our lawyers have experience in all areas of commercial real estate including:

• Complex land transactions
• Multi-family apartment complexes
• Development appeals
• Condominiums
• Landlord and tenant matters
• Commercial leasing
• Subdivision applications
• Redesignation of land uses
• Commercial development agreements
• Financing
• Syndications
• Purchasing or selling land
  
  

Some of the services we provide in this area include:

• Negotiating and drafting offers and purchase and sale agreements
• Security registration and realization
• Negotiation and preparation of loan and security agreements
• Preparation of re-financing agreements and loan restructuring agreements
• Negotiating and drafting of commercial lease agreements
  
  

We have acted for all of the major financial institutions and for national clients, including lenders, buyers, sellers and real estate investment trusts. We have been instrumental in negotiating and concluding the purchase and sale of assets, including commercial buildings, office buildings, industrial sites, multifamily residential complexes and retail shopping centres in Edmonton and Calgary and throughout Alberta and the four western provinces. As part of these transactions, we also possess the expertise needed to prepare partnership agreements, retail leasing documents, franchising and licensing agreements as well as major commercial leases for our clients.

We have lawyers with the experience, judgment and the contacts and resources necessary to ensure that these transactions are closed as quickly and as efficiently as possible. We also provide advice to pension funds, lending institutions, national finance companies, developers, franchisees and small business owners. Several of our lawyers have experience in major commercial litigation including construction disputes, builders’ lien actions, shopping centre disputes and security realization.

Our clients look to us for counsel on joint ventures, financing in private and capital markets and tenders. We provide advice to our retail and property management clients on issues such as landlord and tenant regulations, taxation and employment legislation and insurance requirements, as well as on occupational health and safety requirements at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.

residential real estate

Our lawyers will efficiently and capably assist you with:

• Documents for the sale of your home
• Purchasing a new or previously owned home
  
• Advice regarding your tax obligations in the purchase or sale of land or a home
  
• Preparation of leasing documents and tenancy agreements
  
• Preparation of mortgage documents
  
• Re-financing arrangements
  
• Builders liens’ advice on new homes or substantial renovations
  
• Registering or enforcing caveats and restrictive covenants,
  
  

together with all other aspects of residential real estate.

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