Overview
Robins Appleby & Taub LLP, acting for the vendors, completed the sale of the Yonge-Eglinton Centre in Toronto to RioCan Yonge-Eglinton Limited Partnership, a subsidiary of RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust ("RioCan"). The legal team was headed by Ronald Appleby, Q.C., with Gerald Taub, Q.C., Neill Kalvin, Peggy Spadafora and Helen Wright acting on real estate matters, Jonathan Zepp on corporate and securities matters; and David Schlesinger and Errol Tenenbaum on tax matters. The purchase price of $223,000,000.00 was satisfied by assumptions of mortgage, securities exchangeable for RioCan Units and cash. Yonge-Eglinton Centre is an office and retail complex located at Yonge and Eglinton in midtown Toronto with more than 1,000,000 square feet, comprising two office towers of 22 and 30 storeys.
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,...