Neil Katz

Neil is a partner in Blakes’ Corporate, Financial Services and Real Estate Groups and is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. His practice focuses on financing, real estate, private equity, and commercial and business law. Neil has extensive expertise in advising leading public and private companies, institutional investors, private equity sponsors, pension funds, chartered banks and other financial institutions on a wide variety of transactions. He regularly acts for borrowers and lenders on a variety of domestic and cross-border loans and for vendors and purchasers of private companies, business units and real estate assets.

Prior to his career in law, Neil worked as an analyst and appraiser for a major real estate developer, the real estate investment banking arm of a Canadian chartered bank and a leading real estate appraisal firm.