Lawyer Profile
Neal H. Armstrong
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
For 30 years, Neal has provided clients with clear, comprehensive advice and creative tax solutions.
Neal advises clients on a wide range of domestic and international tax matters, with his specialized expertise in REITs, GST/HST, financings, and inbound and outbound cross-border transactions. His diverse practice includes reorganizations, derivatives and other financial products, as well as real estate joint ventures, land transfer tax advice, investment funds and dispute resolution.
Neal is the editor of Tax Interpretations, an online commentary on the transaction implications of a broad range of Canadian tax matters. The website offers the only comprehensive summary of public transactions over the past five years, providing details that are critical to organizations considering Canadian tax-structuring perspectives.
Acted for Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG), a Crown agency of the Province of Ontario, on a nearly 20 year Casino Operating and Services Agreement (COSA) with Caesars Entertainment Windsor Limited for the Windsor casino, the final transaction in OLG’s Land based Gaming modernization initiative.
Acted for a special committee of independent trustees of Centurion Apartment Real Estate Investment Trust, a private, unlisted REIT with over $6.5 billion in assets, with restructuring of the REIT’s asset management agreement and related arrangements with its external asset manager, Centurion Asset Management Inc.
Acted for Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc. in its negotiation of a real estate joint venture with Ipso Facto and developer Douville, Moffet & Associés and related entities regarding Lux Place, a new multi-phase, high-end multi-residential project that will feature 850 apartments and 175 long-term-stay hotel rooms above three levels of underground parking, with a total of 1,217,830 square feet of building space.
Acted for a group of noteholders of the approximately $10-billion Master Asset Vehicle II (MAV II), in approving and implementing amendments to the structure of MAV II to provide for periodic optional redemptions of certain notes of MAV II and concurrent proportional unwinds and liquidations of MAV II's liabilities and assets.
Canadian Tax Foundation Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario International Fiscal Association
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1984 (ON)