Real Estate

Real estate development is an important economic and community accelerator in Canada, the US, and beyond. Handling the legalities of sophisticated, high profile real estate matters requires not only strong legal counsel, but also a practical understanding of the economics, financing, ownership and management components of real estate development.

Our multi-disciplinary approach allows us to help our clients meet their goals across a project’s lifecycle. We assist our domestic and cross-border clients with:

• Financing and refinancing real estate assets including mortgage transactions, private placements, public offerings, bond financings, project financings and synthetic lease-based financings.
• Transactions and acquisitions including land purchases and sales.
• Structuring public/private partnerships and joint ventures.
• Real estate syndications and securitizations.
• Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).
• Agreements including co-tenancy agreements, general partnership and limited partnership agreements.
• Tax structuring such as structuring transactions involving complex tax, corporate law, withholding and income tax components.
• Restructuring real estate assets.
• Construction litigation.

Goodmans real estate clients include developers, owners and managers, contractors, consortiums, leading financial institutions, investment dealers and intermediaries, governments, government agencies and crown corporations. These clients operate across a wide range of sectors, including healthcare, seniors housing, hospitality, retail, energy, infrastructure, industrial and residential and office development.

To support the varied requirements of our clients, Goodmans real estate lawyers regularly collaborate with our administrative law team to add value to land development and re-developments, as needed.