REITs
Canada Guide 2025 : Nationwide - Canada
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Provided by Goodmans LLP
Goodmans is Canada's leading law firm in REITs, income funds and other income securities. In recent years, REITs and income securities have been the most active, visible and dynamic sector of Canada's capital markets - and Goodmans has demonstrated its unique creativity, entrepreneurial flair and responsiveness in this area.
The firm's excellence in corporate finance, M&A and tax planning continues to be evident its REITs and income securities practice. Goodmans also provides clients with strategic business advice and creative solutions in this area.
Goodmans acted on the first REIT IPO in Canada and ever since has pioneered new structures in response to evolving client needs, market trends and regulatory challenges.
Among many other transactions, we played a key role in:
- developing the structure that enabled REITs to own operating businesses
- Canada's first mutually initiated REIT merger
- designing the model for external management and development arrangements
- creating Canada's first cross-border REIT
- Canada’s first cross-border income fund
- the largest IPO and the largest bought deal in Canada's income fund history
- the largest REIT take-overs in each of 2005 and in 2006
- Canada's first cross-border income securities IPO
- Canada's largest business trust conversion
- developing Canada's first high dividend common share structure for a cross-border IPO
Chambers Review
Goodmans is a leading Toronto law firm with an extremely strong reputation and track record advising REITs and underwriters on M&A, capital markets and tax structuring matters. The team often advises clients on precedent-setting domestic and cross-border transactions, offering additional complementary expertise in income funds and income securities. The firm represents a range of REITs in their acquisition of various properties, including in the residential, senior living and hospital asset classes.
Work Highlights
- Goodmans acted for Tricon Residential on its acquisition by an affiliate of Blackstone.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Goodmans has a wealth and depth of transaction experience."
"It is the first firm I think of when needing assistance with a complex matter."
"Goodmans has a wealth and depth of transaction experience."
"It is the first firm I think of when needing assistance with a complex matter."
Notable Practitioners
Toronto-based Stephen Pincus is a top-ranked practitioner with impressive experience advising REITs on a variety of novel matters.
Brenda Gosselin is a Toronto-based lawyer who represents REITs clients in initial public offerings, investment fund launches and fundraising activities, among other mandates.
"Brenda Gosselin is very strategic, very collaborative, extremely well informed, proactive, practical, pragmatic, timely and well resourced."