Jillian Shortt
Canada Guide 2025
Band 4 : Real Estate
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About
Provided by Jillian Shortt
Practice Areas
Jillian is the leader of the Dentons Canada Real Estate sector group and co-lead of the Real Estate, Development and Planning group in Calgary. She is also a member of Dentons’ Pension Plan Real Estate Investment Group. Jillian’s practice focuses on commercial real estate and real estate financing transactions. In her transactional practice, Jillian represents a wide range of clients including pension funds and their advisors, real estate companies and public sector entities. She has extensive experience in acquisitions and dispositions of real estate (whether office, industrial, retail or hotel) and the creation of single and two tier joint ventures structures and limited partnerships used in a wide variety of real estate transactions. In her real estate financing practice, Jillian represents pension plans, national banks and insurance companies acting as lenders and her expertise includes traditional real estate financing, construction and project financing, private and public mortgage bond financings as well as credit tenant lease transactions.
Career
Called to the bar: Alberta, 2015; Ontario, 1995
Professional Memberships
NAIOP Toronto (National Association of Industrial and Office Properties); AFIRE (Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate); Ontario Bar Association.
Chambers Review
Canada
Jillian Shortt leads the national real estate practice at the firm. Her expertise covers purchases and sales, particularly transactions involving industrial sites.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Jillian Shortt is excellent."
"Jillian Shortt is excellent."
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