Expertise

Real Estate

Our real estate group in Montréal, Ottawa, Québec and Toronto offers a wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise in all facets of the commercial real estate field. Our highly regarded legal experts provide advice to lending institutions, life insurance companies, crown corporations, various levels of government, land developers, contractors, property managers, asset managers, landlords and tenants on a variety of issues on a daily basis and we pride ourselves on the long term relationships we have been able to build with our clients.

Members of the real estate team assist the legal departments and/or the portfolio and asset managers of significant Canadian corporations in the acquisition, development and administration of their extensive real estate portfolios across the country in both official languages. Our real estate professionals participate with members from other disciplines and other offices in multi-jurisdictional merger and acquisition transactions, secured lending transactions, large project and infrastructure financing transactions, and public-private partnerships.

Our expertise and services include the following areas:

• Commercial leasing
• Developing commercial, industrial and residential projects
• Development and management of commercial, industrial and residential projects
• Expropriation
• Identifying and using innovative vehicles to hold assets
• Litigation - real estate
• Negotiating sales, acquisitions and outsourcing of real estate services
• Planning and zoning
• Purchase and sale of real estate
• Real estate assessment and taxation
• Real estate financing
• Reorganizing real estate portfolios
• Structuring and managing the real estate component of public/private partnerships
• Structuring of project financing
• Title examination

The depth of our team, the culture of teamwork and excellence at Ogilvy Renault, the full-service nature of our practice and our ability to draw seamlessly on our colleagues in related specialties such as tax, securities, insurance, banking and financial products, construction and environmental law allows us to offer a multi-disciplinary approach and solution to all legal real estate needs. Our real estate team will provide you with creative solutions to the most complex problems.