Overview

Phil Rimer leads the Real Estate , Project Development , and Banking and Finance practice groups in the Ottawa office. With over three decades of experience, he is one of the country's most valuable and respected dealmakers in complex and strategic commercial real estate and infrastructure projects.
Phil is dedicated to helping diverse national and international clients, including landowners, developers and institutional stakeholders such as pension funds, banks and public-sector entities, grow their operations through commercial real estate and infrastructure projects. He is also a highly regarded authority on transactions structured under the Financial Administration Act , as well as transactions with Indigenous stakeholders (primarily "renewable energy" and "on reserve" infrastructure projects).
Phil has been repeatedly recognized as a trailblazer in all of the areas in which he practices, including being named Best Lawyers' Lawyer of the Year in Banking and Finance Law, Ottawa, in 2014, 2017 and 2019 and in Aboriginal Law, Ottawa, in 2020 and 2022.
In addition, Phil is committed to contributing to the community through various board memberships and has served as a secured transactions professor at the University of Ottawa's Common Law Faculty.

Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law
• Construction Law
• Banking/Finance
• Corporate & Commercial Law
• Bankruptcy & Insolvency

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1984 (ON)