Lawyer Profile
Garth Anderson
Calgary, Alberta
Overview
Garth's practice is focused on the acquisition, development and financing of commercial real estate and infrastructure projects.
Garth advises numerous Canadian and foreign-based institutional clients, including pension funds, life insurance companies, real estate investment trusts, utility companies and Crown corporations, in connection with the acquisition, disposition, leasing and financing of their commercial and industrial properties.
For his infrastructure practice, Garth assists clients in structuring major design-build-finance-operate projects in the transportation sector as public-private partnerships, and on the real estate and construction aspects of various energy-related infrastructure projects.
Qualified as an expert witness in the Court of King's Bench of Alberta regarding solicitors' standard of conduct in real estate transactions
The Purchaser on the acquisition of The Bow office tower in Calgary, Alberta and Bell Creekbank Campus in Mississauga, Ontario
A German open-ended real estate fund on its C$500-million+ acquisition of the commercial portion of Stantec Tower in Edmonton, Alberta
IG Mackenzie Real Property Fund (formerly Investors Real Property Fund) on its C$140-million acquisition of an office building in downtown Calgary, Alberta, and related assumption of the existing mortgage facility
The C$105-milllion purchase of First & Jasper, a redeveloped class "A" office and retail complex in downtown Edmonton, Alberta, and related mortgage financing
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1987 (AB)