I am a partner in the Toronto office of Stikeman Elliott and a senior member of the firm's Real Estate Group practising in the area of commercial real estate. My practice encompasses all aspects of real property transactions, including the purchase, sale and financing of commercial office complexes, retail shopping centres, residential apartment buildings, hotels, retirement homes and long-term residences, as well as secured lending. I have extensive experience in joint venture structuring, portfolio acquisitions, financings and restructurings (acting on behalf of both lending syndicates and corporate borrowers), and also practise corporate commercial law, with an emphasis on the acquisition and/or privatization of public real estate enterprises and capital markets transactions. I have had significant exposure to a wide variety of transactional work for both private and public companies and REITs.