Lawyer Profile
Andrew P. Bedford
Calgary, Alberta
Overview
Andrew Bedford provides strategic advice for an array of clients across the full range of real estate matters, helping them to advance their objectives in an increasingly complex landscape.
Andrew’s broad commercial real estate practice includes advising clients in selling and purchasing commercial and industrial real estate; land assembly and development matters; real property due diligence related to M&A transactions; leasing of commercial and industrial real estate; and construction financing. He acts for institutional developers, investors, publicly traded entities (including REITs), pension funds and private equity investors to help them navigate the ever-changing world of real estate.
His sector-specific experience includes advising on a wide range of energy-related real estate matters, including structuring, negotiating and due diligence for wind and solar renewable energy projects; real property due diligence related to the acquisition of pipelines and midstream facilities; and real property matters related to oil sands ownership and development.
Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) in its acquisition of an 85% equity stake in the Northern Courier Pipeline from TC Energy Corporation
Fairfax Financial in its C$300 million acquisition of Toys "R" Us Canada Ltd. pursuant to a cross-border auction process under both the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
a private real estate development and seniors housing operating company and its partner in the C$297.9 million sale of four retirement communities, and the subsequent C$120 million forward sale of a fifth in development, to Chartwell Retirement Residences, as well as the private company's related sale of its 50% interest in the remaining four additional retirement communities in Edmonton, Alberta to its partner
City of Calgary as the public authority for the C$174 million Stoney CNG Bus Storage and Transit Facility PPP project to design, build, finance and maintain a new storage and maintenance facility for a new fleet of compressed natural gas buses in Calgary, Alberta, a project which won the 2019 Silver Award for Innovation and Excellence in Infrastructure from the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP)
The Dilawri Group of Companies and Automotive Properties Real Estate Investment Trust in Dilawri's establishment of the REIT, the REIT's subsequent C$81.2 million initial public offering of trust units, C$354.2 million acquisition of a portfolio of 26 commercial properties from Dilawri and its debt financing to partially fund the acquisition
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1990 (AB)