Year called to the Bar: 1987
Partner; coordinates the Blakes’ national real estate group. Advisor to pension funds and institutional and private investors in the acquisition and disposition of real property and mortgage portfolios; active in the privatization and disposition of government assets; structured real estate joint ventures and partnerships and placed financing secured by real estate on behalf of both individuals and institutions. Recognized, nationally and internationally, as a leading real estate practitioner in The Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Real Estate Lawyers, Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook, The Best Lawyers in Canada, The Canadial Legal Lexpert® Directory, The International Who's Who of Real Estate Lawyers and Who's Who Legal: Canada. Instructor for The Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) Bar admission course. Canadian President of the Canadian German Lawyers Association and speaks German fluently. Lectured at the Osgoode Hall Law School intensive program in business law. Education: LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School, 1985; BA, UBC, 1981; International Baccalaureate, United World College of the Atlantic, 1978.
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