Torys

Real Estate

Andy’s deep real estate knowledge and insight into the energy and infrastructure industries help inform and guide clients in their most important and complex real estate projects and transactions.

Andy’s practice focuses on commercial real estate law, with an emphasis on energy projects, infrastructure and public-private partnerships. Andy acts regularly on behalf of developers, consortiums, lending syndicates and government authorities on project construction, development and financing, as well as acquisitions and dispositions. He also has experience advising on the real estate components of M&A transactions, REITs and other securities law matters.

Ontario Bar, 2009Solicitor, England/Wales - 2005

Andy has practiced real estate law in England, which included an extended secondment in the real estate department of one of the largest privately-owned companies in the U.K. He is a member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) and the Urban Land Institute (ULI).

In the community, Andy is member of the board of directors of Neighbourhood Link Homes, a non-profit support service agency operating four non-profit housing projects in east Toronto, providing affordable homes for families and seniors. He is the former co-chair of the Board of Directors of St. Michael’s Homes, a charitable organization providing support to vulnerable persons by way of residential units and detoxification centres in Toronto.