Catherine E. Bray

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work: Commercial Real Estate Structuring legal arrangements: Structuring legal arrangements for a variety of clients, including corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships
  joint ventures, including preparation
  negotiation of shareholder's agreements, partnership
  joint venture agreements. Recently provided advice on
  implementation of tax saving structures for institutions involving real estate.
  Asset Acquisition: Structuring, negotiating
  preparing various types of agreements
  documentation respecting asset purchases
  sales including office buildings, warehouses, manufacturing, industrial
  institutional sites. Specific negotiations
  addressing issues respecting contaminated l
  
  brownfield developments.
  Financing: Structuring, negotiating
  preparing financing agreements
  associated agreements
  loan documentation
  security involving real estate such as office, warehouse, industrial, multi residential
  institutional. Extensive experience in construction loans
  mortgages of leasehold interests.
  Disposition: Structuring, negotiating
  completing sale transactions including sale/lease back transactions for major Canadian companies such as Brookfield, Oxford Properties, Bell Canada
  Zurich Insurance.
  Variety of Developments: Advising on office
  industrial developments
  not-for-profit housing developments
  mixed use
  multi use projects, including public private partnerships.
  Mixed Use Developments: Involved in structuring
  negotiating shared facilities
  access agreements in mixed use developments. Mixed use developments contain a variety of uses each owned by different owners. However the building structure
  systems like HVAC are interdependent. There are also legal issues as to access for repairs
  liability for lack of repairs.
  L
  Development: Advising on l
  development, including acquisitions, development agreements, construction agreements, financing
  reciprocal agreements.
  Section 37 Agreements: Negotiation with the City of Toronto.
  Environmental Compliance: Advising regarding legal aspects of the acquisition, disposition
  compliance respecting contaminated l
  s
  brownfield sites.
  Title: Providing opinions on title
  negotiation of commercial title insurance to solve title issues.
  Institutional Clients: Institutional owners such as CBC/Radio-Canada, Waterfront Toronto, HollyFrontier Corporation, OCAD University, The Hospital for Sick Children, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, Sheridan College Institute of Technology
  Advanced Learning, Medecins Sans Frontieres Canada/Doctors Without Borders, several lending institutions including Bank of Montreal, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, Royal Bank of Canada
  HSBC Bank Canada including 200 million construction loans for CityPlace, Toronto.
  Public
  Private Entity clients: Public
  private l
  owners such as Brookfield, Oxford Properties, Loblaw Properties Limited, AGF Management Limited, Medecins Sans Frontieres Canada/Doctors Without Borders, Parrish & Heimbecker Limited, Atlas Copco Canada Inc., Arkema Canada Inc., Professional Engineers Ontario, Air Products Inc., Shell Canada (pipelines), Imperial Life Assurance Company of Canada, Guaranty Company of North America (head office lease)
  Canada Post (head office lease).
  Leasing
  Licensing Leasing: Preparing
  negotiating leases on behalf of l
  lords, tenants, ground l
  lords, ground tenants, sale/leasebacks, subleases, licenses
  air space licenses
  Ground Leases: Preparing
  negotiating ground leases
  construction agreements with the Province of Ontario for a hospital
  with the City of Toronto on behalf of a private corporation for a mixed-use re-development
  for a developer in a ground lease
  lease back for Canada Post's head office
  for Humber Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning.
  Transactions Involving Ground Leases: Acting on behalf of tenants of ground leases, purchasers of ground lease interests, lenders on ground leases
  subtenants under ground leases.
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  lords: Developing
  negotiating st
  ard form offers to lease
  leases for office
  retail sites on behalf of l
  lords
  negotiating offers to lease
  leases on behalf of L
  lords.
  Tenants: Developing st
  ard offers to lease for tenants, work with corporate non-legal staff respecting leasing matters, negotiating
  drafting offers to lease
  leases on behalf of tenants for office, retail
  industrial sites.
  Lease Defaults: Advising on
  negotiating solutions resulting from lease defaults by l
  lords
  by tenants.
  Air Space Licences: Negotiating
  preparing air space licences.
  Communications Leases: Negotiating communications tower leases.
  Native L
  s Licences: Negotiating interests in l
  s with Native Canadians including pipelines for Shell Canada
  Air Products Inc.
  Institutional Clients: Negotiating leases
  licences for various corporations including, Canada Post head office in Ottawa, The Hospital for Sick Children, The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation, Southlake Regional Health Centre, Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences, St. Joseph Health Centre (Toronto), William Osler Health System, OCAD University, Humber College Institute of Technology
  Advanced Learning, Sheridan Institute of Technology
  Advanced Learning
  Colleges Ontario.
  Public
  Private Clients: AGF Management Limited, GayLea Foods, Value Village Canada, Manheim Auto Auctions, Cox Industries, Movenpick/Richtree Restaurants in BCE Place, Toronto, Rideau Centre, Ottawa, York Mills
  several other locations in the USA, Oxford Properties Group, Professional Engineers Ontario, Air Products Inc., Shell Canada, Revios Reinsurance Canada Ltd., Imperial Life Assurance Company of Canada
  Guarantee Company of North America head office lease.