Overview
Real estate partners Leor Margulies and Peggy Spadafora and one of our senior law clerks, Helen Wright, acted on the sale of the retail component of the new addition to the Yorkville condominium skyline, 80-100 Yorkville Avenue, Toronto. The space comprised approximately 29,000 sq. ft. of high end retail with tenants such as Diesel and Anthropologie. The sale was completed for a sale price of approximately $28,000,000.00 by Yorkville (2001) Limited, an affiliate of the Invar Building Group and Tricon Capital to 80 & 100 Yorkville Corp. at the end of January 2010. It was reported by RealNet as being in the top 5 retail transactions in Canada, as of June 7, 2010. More recently, 97 luxury condominiums were closed in the residential component of the project in June 2010, and a further 6 luxury townhomes in August 2010.
Lawyers
Representative Work
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| Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Defeated Injunction to Tie Up Client Assets and Received Elevated Costs Award
MFC v Mady Collier, 2016 ONSC 4182 (CanLII) – Clients were awarded their costs on a substantial indemnity scale when they defeated a Mareva injunction which tried to tie up their assets... -
| Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Certified a Class Action
Rebuck v. Ford Motor Company, 2018 ONSC 7405 (CanLII) – Obtained a judgment certifying a proposed class action against Ford Motor Company and Ford Motor company of Canada on behalf of i... -
| Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Overturned Lower Court Decision at Ontario Court of Appeal
Birchcliffe Core-Harbour Inc. v. Pinnock, 2019 ONCA 417 – Succeeded at the Ontario Court of Appeal in obtaining damages for breach of contract when a purchase of land could not be completed,...