Elias Benhamou
Canada Guide 2025
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About
Provided by Elias Benhamou
Practice Areas
A senior partner, Elias provides clients with business-minded advice on commercial real estate development, acquisitions, joint ventures, financing, construction and leasing. He also has significant development experience in secured syndicated lending and mortgage financing. For more than 30 years, he has worked on many of Québec’s largest real estate transactions, advising some of the most active private and institutional real estate owners and developers, as well as major national retailers. Elias is a speaker and moderator at prominent real estate conferences and a guest lecturer at the McGill Graduate School of Urbanism. He chairs the Opinion Committee for commercial matters in the Montréal office as well as the Space Planning Committee for Davies’ Montréal office renovation. He is a trustee of the Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art and a board member of the PHI Centre. Select Recognition: American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Fellow; IFLR1000; Lexpert Special Edition: Infrastructure; The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory; The Best Lawyers in Canada, Real Estate Law Lawyer of the Year 2018, Montréal; Who’s Who Legal: Canada.
Chambers Review
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Elias Benhamou has a reputation as one of the leading real estate transactional lawyers in Montréal. He boasts impressive experience in joint ventures, acquisitions and sales as well as redevelopment and project financing.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Elias Benhamou is a highly knowledgeable and experienced real estate adviser.He inspires confidence and understands how to make a deal."
"Elias's experience and knowledge of the industry are well appreciated."
"He is just brilliant; he sees things that most other lawyers don't. He is bright and he knows what he is talking about."
"Elias Benhamou is extremely experienced and seasoned. He is able to quickly grasp the critical considerations and advise and implement the appropriate means to address them."
"Elias Benhamou is a highly knowledgeable and experienced real estate adviser.He inspires confidence and understands how to make a deal."
"Elias's experience and knowledge of the industry are well appreciated."
"He is just brilliant; he sees things that most other lawyers don't. He is bright and he knows what he is talking about."
"Elias Benhamou is extremely experienced and seasoned. He is able to quickly grasp the critical considerations and advise and implement the appropriate means to address them."
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