Bennett Jones LLP

Commercial Real Estate

Partner

John is a partner in the firms commercial real estate group. His practice has a particular emphasis on real estate financing. John has acted on some of the country's largest commercial real estate financing transactions including, most recently, acting as lead counsel to a syndicate of lenders with respect to a $1.4 billion syndicated term loan in connection with the acquisition by Blackstone Property Partners L.P. and Ivanhoe Cambridge Inc. of all of the units of Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust. John’s real estate finance practice focuses on both syndicated and bilateral secured lending transactions including revolving, term loan and construction credit facilities. His clients include a mix of borrowers, banks and private non-bank commercial mortgage lenders.

Queen's University, BA (Hons), 1998 Queen's University, LLB, 2001