Edward L. Wilson

Practice Areas

Forestry; Real Estate.

Career

Ed practices in the areas of real estate and municipal law, with a focus on real estate development. He advises clients on a wide range of projects, including industrial site development, heritage designation and density bonusing arrangements, shopping centre rezonings and redevelopments, office and industrial parks, condominium projects, strata title hotels, and mine site development. His experience also includes the subdivision and sale of pulp and saw mills, municipal downtown redevelopment, and commercial lease negotiations for both landlords and tenants.

He has been involved in large land assemblies, subdivisions, bare land strata plans, air space parcels, real estate acquisitions, financings, sales, and the structuring of ownership and transaction models. Ed works closely with sellers, buyers, and developers on commercial, residential, industrial, resort, and financing matters, and also advises on environmental issues related to real property.

Ed is recognized as a leading authority in British Columbia on strata corporation windups, having completed dozens of windups including the province’s first court-approved windup. He has served on multiple committees proposing changes to strata property law, including the BC Law Institute’s committee that recommended changes to the Strata Property Act that allowed for more the flexible rules facilitating windups.

His experience also includes advising on energy-related projects such as cogeneration plants, run-of-river generation facilities, electrical transmission lines, natural gas pipelines, and LNG plants. Ed has further advised on the development of standard form documents in the real estate, strata management, and mortgage broker sectors, and supports professionals in those industries on regulatory matters.

Professional Memberships

British Columbia Law Institute, Board Member

Canadian Council for Public & Private Partnerships, Member

Mortgage Brokers Association of B.C., Member

National Association of Industrial & Office Properties, Member

SPA – Strata Property Agents of British Columbia, Associate Member

Urban Development Institute, Member

Publications

Ed has published numerous articles for Continuing Legal Education of BC and others.