Lawyer Profile
Yan Besner
Montréal, Québec
Overview
Yan is a Partner in the Real Estate Group of our Montréal office. He advises on acquisitions, dispositions, financing and leasing transactions to real estate companies and clients with core real estate assets critical to their businesses.
His clients include property owners, developers, lenders and other commercial clients. He is known for his extensive experience in advising national and international retailers, including businesses involved in franchising on their commercial real estate needs in Québec. Yan provides ongoing, day-to-day counsel to numerous major national and international retail clients on their commercial leasing needs across Canada. He also provides real estate counsel to institutional property owners and managers, REITS, family offices and governmental authorities.
Yan created and spearheaded the development of Estoppel Express, an estoppel certificate production service developed through the Osler Works platform.
An entrepreneurial, talented and energetic lawyer, Yan is recognized as a rising star in the commercial real estate sector in Quebec. He is a trusted and commercially savvy advisor to his clients, many of whom have worked with him for several years on multiple projects, as well as a key real estate resource within the firm, on both provincial and national levels.
Yan is regularly called upon to speak at the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) of America, of which he is an active member. He is also the 2020 Program Planning Committee Chair of the ICSC Canadian Shopping Centre Law Conference. Yan has also been a contributor to the chapter on the Landlord’s Rights and Remedies in Quebec in the book Landlords Rights and Remedies in a Commercial Lease: A Practical Guide, Second Edition and taught International Finance at the Masters Level at the Faculty of Law of Université de Montréal.
Yan is repeatedly recognized as a leading lawyer by the following legal directories:
Diversified Royalty Corp. in its agreement to acquire the Mr. Lube + Tires franchisor business
GE HealthCare in its agreement to acquire Intelerad for US$2.3 billion
The underwriters, led by Goldman Sachs, BMO Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets and TD Securities, in connection with the initial public offering by Groupe Dynamite Inc.
Béton Provincial in connection with its acquisition of CRH Canada Group Inc.
WT Microelectronics in its acquisition of Future Electronics for US$3.8 billion
SK On in connection with an $1.2 billion investment with Ford and EcoPro BM in the Province of Québec
General Motors Co. in its $1 billion investment project with POSCO Future M
Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical Co. in its US$100-million sale to Ellimist Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Koch Real Estate Investments in connection with its preferred equity financing of the Canderel-led $5.7 billion acquisition of Cominar REIT
Corbeil Électrique Inc., in connection with the sale of substantially all of its business and assets to AM-CAM Électroménagers Inc.
National Tire Distributors Inc. in its acquisition of Pneus Supérieurs Inc.
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Osler is proud to have been shortlisted for a Financial Times North America Innovative Lawyers Award for Estoppel Express, an estoppel certificate...
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2003 (QC)