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Commercial Real Estate

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Overview

SURV’s lawyers have extensive experience and expertise in all areas of commercial real estate,  providing tailored and comprehensive real estate advice to their diverse client base.

Investment Structures

We recommend and implement appropriate structures for property acquisition and holding. Corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, and other forms of joint ventures may be implemented to address the client’s business objectives, risk mitigation, and tax efficiencies.

Acquisition and Disposition

We act for clients in the acquisition, financing, operation and disposition of shopping centres, residential and offices complexes, hotels/recreational properties and multi-use projects. This includes review and consideration of existing leases, zoning and municipal issues, environmental issues, and financing.

Development

We have experience with a wide spectrum of development issues, including project management, tendering, rezoning and municipal approvals, construction and insurance, subdivisions (including air space parcels) sales disclosure issues, builders liens, and construction dispute resolution.

Finance

We represent both borrowers and lenders, including financial institutions and private parties, on a wide variety of financing arrangements relating to real estate and commercial matters. We advise on all aspects of finance from structuring and securitizing to funding both primary and subordinate loans, including project construction and takeout financing and many other types of credit facility.

Leasing

We represent both landlords and tenants in the negotiation of ground leases, retail leases, office leases, lease renewals and rental valuations.

Strata Property

We have expertise in both strata and bare land strata developments as well as re-structuring, including the creation of appropriate bylaws, and property management issues arising out of the Strata Property Act.

Institutional Real Estate

We have extensive experience acting for governmental and quasi-governmental institutions in connection with the foregoing areas of real estate. We are sensitive to the public realm in which institutions operate, and understand the interplay between different levels of government and private and public partners in getting large scale projects built.

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