Matthew Ritchie

• Spire Global Spire Global in its $204.2 million acquisition of exactEarth

• The Legault Group Mondou in its acquisition of Ren’s Pets

• Comark Holdings Inc. Comark completes sale transaction and emerges from creditor protection
• Uken Games Uken Games in the sale of Bingo Pop to Jam City
• Google in various Canadian office leasing transactions, including the long term lease of approximately 400,000 square feet at 65 King St. E. in Toronto, ON
• LaSalle College in the long term lease of 92,000 square feet to be used for its design college at Kaslo Plaza in Vancouver and 17,000 of related office space

• PRO REIT in various Canadian real estate purchase and sale transactions, including its strategic joint venture with Crestpoint for 42 industrial properties, where PRO REIT and Crestpoint each purchased a 50% interest in 21 industrial properties for a total of $228M and PRO REIT sold a 50% interest in 21 of its industrial properties with a total value of $227 million, for a purchase price of $113.5 million and amendment of existing mortgages of $129 million and a 50% interest in a new mortgage of $148 million

• Oak Street Real Estate Capital in its acquisition of four commercial properties in Alberta and Ontario from H&R REIT for $167 million and mortgage of $89 million secured against three of those commercial properties

• A private real estate investor in its sale of three Loblaws distribution centres for $230.4 million and in its sale of a portfolio of Sobeys retail stores throughout Canada for $209 million

• Dream Industrial in various industrial warehouse leases and the sale of three U.S. properties to a U.S. joint venture in which Dream Industrial has an interest

• KingSett Capital in various office and retail leases, including Bloor St. leases to Gucci, Royal De Versailles and LaFayette 148

• EssilorLuxottica Canada in retail leases for its LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, RayBan and Pearlevision stores

• Clearco, Drop, Xanadu Quantum Technologies, Deep Genomics, Borrowell, LUS Brands, Inkbox Ink and other emerging and high growth companies in their Canadian office and industrial leasing and merger & acquisition transactions

• United Stars Industries in its 15 year lease of a 170,000 square foot industrial property in southwestern Ontario for manufacturing of precision engineered metal components

• Apollo in the real estate components of its purchase of the shares of Great Canadian Gaming Corporation, including assumption of all Canadian leases and re-financing of its Canadian real estate portfolio

• Goldman Sachs in its Canadian office leasing transactions

• RSM Canada LLP in its Canadian office leasing matters and merger and acquisition transactions

• Toyotoshi Auto Group in leasing matters at the 401 Pearson Auto Mall, including Honda, Toyota and Audi auto dealerships

• Jet Equipment & Tools in their 10 year lease of a 105,000 square foot industrial property in Guelph, ON and additional leasing, subleasing and merger & acquisition matters

• A private company in the sale of the Devil’s Pulpit and Devil’s Paintbrush golf courses in Caledon, ON

• RBC Dominion Securities in the underwriting of share offerings for several large Canadian REITs

• A private company in the sale of the Delta Markham Hotel for $28 million and the Holiday Inn Toronto-Mississauga for $15.25 million

• Smart REIT (formerly Calloway) in its $1.12 billion acquisition and financing of SmartCentres properties, including Wal-Mart anchored properties
  
• Chartwell in its acquisition of five assisted living facilities in Ontario for $254 million

Insolvency and Restructuring Transactions

• Stern Partners Inc. in its CCAA filing and restructuring of Ricki’s, Cleo and Bootlegger brands, including renegotiating over 300 retail leases
• Target in its CCAA filing and wind-down of Canadian operations
• Sears in its CCAA filing and wind-down of Canadian operations, including the sale of several retail portfolios and assignment of leases

• Forever 21 in its CCAA filing and wind-down of Canadian operations, including the assignment of valuable industrial leases

•  Pier 1 Imports in its CCAA filing and wind-down of Canadian operations
• KPMG Inc. in its capacity of receiver in the sale of 2088 Lakeshore Road, Oakville, ON for $15 million