Real Estate
Canada Guide 2025 : Ontario
Band 3
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+1 416 366 8381About
Provided by Fasken
Fasken’s Real Estate Group is your go-to team of experts in all types of real estate matters. We deliver on major projects and transactions and provide ongoing support for your ongoing leasing, financing and transactional needs. Our bench strength is unmatched across the country.
Fasken lawyers get the deal done. Our primary goal is to achieve your objectives efficiently. We deploy our expertise, resources and innovative solutions to partner in your success. We can leverage technological solutions and deploy the depth of our whole team to your benefit.
Our clients include real estate developers, private institutional investors, both local and foreign, financial institutions, pension funds, pension fund managers, insurance companies and Crown corporations. We represent both privately held clients and publicly traded corporations and REITs.
We can advise buyers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, developers and investors and landlords and tenants, in respect of office, retail, industrial, multi-residential and institutional properties. We can take on your development, infrastructure and network projects with hands on experience.
Our offices across Canada can simultaneously handle acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, financing, joint ventures and investment transactions in multiple jurisdictions. We are experienced in handling real estate matters for specialized industries and sectors.
Chambers Review
Fasken is acknowledged for its ability to provide an integrated service to its client base in the real estate sector in Ontario. The team draws praise for its experience of planning, development and transactional matters, with notable expertise in complicated dispositions and joint venture agreements. The group is equally well equipped to advise on financing mandates and the real estate aspects of infrastructure projects. It regularly acts for clients in the retail, office and industrial sectors.
Work Highlights
- Fasken assisted LaSalle Investment Management with the sale of a shopping centre.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Fasken demonstrates commitment to understanding the client's business and risk profile, supported by range of lawyers with related practice area expertise."
"Fasken understands our needs and the complexities in our business. The lawyers have a good appreciation of market terms and provide clear opinions on matters."
"Fasken's Ontario real estate team is very diligent and considers all potential issues. It provides great, practical advice."
"The Fasken real estate team is prepared and able to handle the most complex and sophisticated matters with ease."
"You know that if you need the team, the lawyers will prioritise in order to get the work done."
"Fasken demonstrates commitment to understanding the client's business and risk profile, supported by range of lawyers with related practice area expertise."
"Fasken understands our needs and the complexities in our business. The lawyers have a good appreciation of market terms and provide clear opinions on matters."
"Fasken's Ontario real estate team is very diligent and considers all potential issues. It provides great, practical advice."
"The Fasken real estate team is prepared and able to handle the most complex and sophisticated matters with ease."
"You know that if you need the team, the lawyers will prioritise in order to get the work done."
Notable Practitioners
Andrea Centa leads the firm's Ontario real estate practice and earns recognition for her broad range of activity in the space. She is an accomplished commercial real estate lawyer who capably advises on purchases, sales, development projects and financings in the sector.
"Andrea Centa is very responsive and I always feel confident relying on her legal advice and strategies."
"Andrea Centa is our relationship partner at the firm, and she goes above and beyond to ensure that we receive the best possible service."
"Andrea Centa is diligent, responsive and provides robust and commercially focused advice."
"Andrea Centa is always very responsive and provides valuable insight."
Martin Emmons advises clients on development projects.
"Martin Emmons is deeply experienced."
Allyson Roy has a robust commercial real estate practice, to which clients turn for a wide range of transactional, development and real estate finance work.
"Allyson Roy is a pleasure to work with. She is always responsive and I feel confident with her in my corner."
"She is smart and provides practical, business-oriented advice."
"Her value-add in terms of risk avoidance and defensive due diligence allows me to focus on the deal and trust that the transaction is in good hands."
"She has got a high level of emotional intelligence and is very good at managing clients' expectations and overall work results. She is good in complicated situations."
"It is always a pleasure when I get to work with Allyson Roy on a file."
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