Goodmans Commercial Real Estate Group is one of the most extensive and comprehensive real estate law practices in Canada, with a deeply rooted Municipal and Land Development practice. Goodmans was named 2025 “Law Firm of the Year” for Real Estate Law by Best Law Firms - Canada.
We are regularly involved in acquisitions, sales and financings of large office buildings, shopping centres, industrial parks and portfolios of properties and mortgages. We handle land purchases and sales, construction, financing, leasing, zoning and tenant negotiations. We are also involved in bond financings, project financings, synthetic lease-based financings, P3 projects, privatizations, real estate syndications and securitizations, REITs, loan syndications, co-tenancy agreements, general partnership and limited partnership agreements, as well as structuring transactions involving complex tax, corporate law, withholding and income tax components.
Representing both private and public sector interests, Goodmans works with developers, owners and managers, contractors, consortiums, leading financial institutions, investment dealers and intermediaries, governments, government agencies and crown corporations.
We regularly appear before municipal committees and councils, administrative tribunals and courts in respect of development appeals, property tax assessment disputes, expropriation proceedings and a wide range of other municipal and regulatory matters.
