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Our expertise extends across a range of practice areas and industry sectors where real estate is at the core of the transaction. We offer advice to help our clients capitalize on their opportunities, manage risk, and resolve disputes.

Our lawyers do more than keep pace with the evolving real estate market – we offer advice to help our clients capitalize on their opportunities, manage risk and resolve disputes.

Our clients rely on our understanding of the complexities of the market and transactional know-how to maximize value and assess the risks of their real estate projects. The practical advice we provide, based on our years of experience handling complex matters, assists our clients in making the informed legal and business decisions critical to their success.

Commercial deals move quickly and we work proactively with our clients to develop risk management strategies to avoid potential issues that can result in delays.

When contentious issues arise our goal is early resolution and the protection of our clients’ property assets, reputation and ongoing business relationships. The knowledge we have gained from dealing with a broad spectrum of disputes assists us in identifying and executing the best strategy to achieve our clients’ goals – whether pursuing or defending litigation or through alternate dispute resolution methods such as arbitration, mediation or negotiation.

We provide a broad range of legal services to financial institutions, real estate investment trusts (REITs), pension funds, hotels, utility companies, public sector and government entities, commercial property owners, investors, developers, commercial landlords and tenants, brokers, and other real estate professionals.

We leverage the experience and expertise of lawyers from across the firm to assist with the specific requirements of each client and unique situation.

Services

  • Acquisition and sale of commercial property.
  • Risk management strategies.
  • Contract disputes.
  • Financing issues relating to commercial projects.
  • Loan and security enforcement.
  • Management and operating agreements.
  • Purchase and sale agreements.
  • Commercial lease disputes.
  • Receiverships and property management issues.
  • Development disputes.
  • Expropriation, land use planning and development issues.
  • Title disputes including easements, liens and ownership priorities.
  • Environmental issues including contaminated sites and remediation.

19 Ellison Peters Professional Corporation lawyers recognized for litigation expertise by Benchmark Canada®, 2018

Benchmark Canada®

Ellison Peters Professional Corporation receives highest firm ranking as a “Highly Recommended” local litigation law firm in Ontario from Benchmark Canada® 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Benchmark Canada®

24 Ellison Peters Professional Corporation lawyers recognized across 15 specialty areas by Best Lawyers® in Canada, 2017

Best Lawyers® in Canada

24 Ellison Peters Professional Corporation lawyers recognized as “Leading Practitioners” by Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory®, 2018

Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory®

Ellison Peters Professional Corporation recognized as a "Leading Law Firm" regionally in the area of Dispute Resolution by Chambers Canada®, 2017

Chambers Canada®

Martindale Hubbell® recognizes 13 Ellison Peters Professional Corporation lawyers across 27 practice areas

Martindale Hubbell®

Ellison Peters Professional Corporation receives the TAGLaw Membership Award of Distinction acknowledging 15 years of outstanding service

TAGLaw

Ellison Peters Professional Corporation recognized as a Top 10 Regional Firm in Ontario, Alberta and the Territories by Canadian Lawyer Magazine, 2012 and 2014

Canadian Lawyer Magazine

“Excellent response time, good talent from junior and intermediate to senior levels and reasonable service costs.”

Benchmark Canada® 2018

“A lawyer who refers work to Ellison Peters Professional Corporation wrote it has ‘great service, a breadth of practice and I have never received a negative comment from referrals to the firm’.”

2014 Canadian Lawyer Magazine Stronger than Ever - Top Western & Northern Firms, September 1, 2014

“a Toronto staple, Ellison Peters Professional Corporation is perhaps the most Toronto-centric of the “highly recommended” firms, owing largely to the firm’s bench strength in several key areas.”

Benchmark Canada® 2018

“Bryan Baynham has a strong presence and remains active and upbeat. I always seem to have something going with him, confirms one peer.”

Benchmark Canada® 2016

“They exceeded all my expectations. I am very satisfied with their work and very happy to recommend them.”

Chambers Canada® 2017

“Recognition remains vibrant for firm figurehead Bryan Baynham. ‘Bryan has a strong presence and remains active and upbeat. I always seem to have something going with him,’ confirms one peer.”

Benchmark Canada® 2016

“Peers vouch for Bryan Baynham’s acumen, addressing him as “a worthy opponent, good on his feet, very skilled and seasoned.”

Benchmark Canada® 2012

“Ellison Peters Professional Corporation lawyers are ‘dedicated to their clients and focused on finding and implementing practical solutions for them. The lawyers are prompt, intelligent and insightful, and provide a high level of customer service’.”

2012 Canadian Lawyer Magazine Embracing Regionalism - Canadian Lawyer’s Top 10 firms from B.C., Alberta, and the Territories are in the Sweet Spot Right Now, October 1, 2012

“Every day it seems like I am dealing with someone at Ellison Peters Professional Corporation, and I always find them professional, courteous and effective.”

Benchmark Canada® 2017

“Ellison Peters Professional Corporation has niches, and in those niches they are the best of the best.”

Benchmark Canada® 2017

“Ellison Peters Professional Corporation is one of the best firms in Toronto. They have excellent service, knowledge and their cost structure is excellent.”

Benchmark Canada® 2017

“Ellison Peters Professional Corporation has a stellar pedigree as a litigation firm, and they’ve put a ton of people on the bench, observes one peer.”

Benchmark Canada® 2014

“Clients are comforted by the firm’s long history in Ontario. We’re steeped in the region. Our connection is such that we have knowledge of not only the issue itself, but the history of the issue in the province.” - Richard Bereti

2012 Canadian Lawyer Magazine Embracing Regionalism - Canadian Lawyer’s Top 10 firms from B.C., Alberta, and the Territories are in the Sweet Spot Right Now, October 1, 2012

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