Gregory Plater
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About
Provided by Gregory Plater
Practice Areas
Greg Plater is Head of the Real Estate Group in the Vancouver office, lead partner of the Real Estate Group for Western Canada, Co-Head of the National Real Estate Group and a member of the Projects & Infrastructure Group. Greg provides advice with respect to all aspects of real estate acquisitions, dispositions, financings, pre-purchase transactions, development projects, joint ventures, construction arrangements and leasing (including ground leases of private and government owned land) in British Columbia and Alberta. His clients include a broad range of public and private real estate companies and developers, pension funds, real estate advisors, lenders and municipalities.
In particular, the development projects in which he has provided advice have involved all aspects of the real estate industry and have included significant ground lease, mixed use, joint development, and complex strata space/air space parcel projects, as well as projects involving the redevelopment of highly contaminated land. Greg has provided advice on a variety of significant public-private partnership (PPP) transactions for transportation, medical, judicial and other government infrastructure projects in British Columbia and Alberta, both as counsel to project proponents and as lender’s counsel. Most recently, he has developed a particular expertise in acting for municipalities on joint development projects involving the private sector.
Chambers Review
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Gregory Plater is active across Western Canada, dividing his time between the law firm's Calgary and Vancouver offices. Plater's expertise includes assisting with development and transactional matters, in addition to capably advising pension funds and property developers on their real estate investments.
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Provided by Chambers
"Gregory Plater is readily available, responsive and able to handle complex transactions."
"Gregory Plater is able to simplify complicated real estate matters and is a trusted adviser."
"Gregory Plater has an exceptional command of detailed agreements combined with the ability to be practical."
"Gregory Plater is very responsive, knows the client's assets, and is good and very thoughtful. He acts very quickly."
"His expertise and deep understanding guided us through the complexities, ensuring well-informed decisions."
"Gregory Plater is readily available, responsive and able to handle complex transactions."
"Gregory Plater is able to simplify complicated real estate matters and is a trusted adviser."
"Gregory Plater has an exceptional command of detailed agreements combined with the ability to be practical."
"Gregory Plater is very responsive, knows the client's assets, and is good and very thoughtful. He acts very quickly."
"His expertise and deep understanding guided us through the complexities, ensuring well-informed decisions."