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Garth Anderson

Partner, Calgary Office

Telephone  403-260-9778
Facsimile  403-260-9700
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Profile

Garth Anderson is a real estate and infrastructure lawyer. His practice is focused on the acquisition, development and financing of commercial real estate and infrastructure projects. His experience includes:

Real Estate - Advising numerous Canadian and foreign-based institutional clients, including pension funds, life insurance companies, REITs, utility companies and Crown corporations, in connection with the acquisition, disposition, leasing and financing of their commercial and industrial properties.

Finance - Advising banks and other institutional lenders on loan transactions effected by way of mortgages, mortgage bonds, debentures and credit-tenant loans. He has acted for master servicers and special servicers on the assumption of securitized mortgages, and assisted in the implementation of various CMBS (commercial mortgage-backed security) offerings.

Infrastructure/P3 - Assisting clients in structuring major DBFO (design, build, finance and operate) projects in the transportation sector as public-private partnerships, and on the real estate and construction aspects of various energy-related infrastructure projects.

Garth is a member of The Law Society of Alberta, the Commercial Real Estate and Construction Subsections of the Canadian Bar Association, and is the past chair of the Government Affairs Committee of the Calgary chapter of NAIOP (Commercial Real Estate Development Association).

In The Best Lawyers in Canada 2010, Garth was voted by his peers as one of the leading real estate lawyers in Canada.



 
     
 

Areas of Law

Real Estate
Structured Finance
Infrastructure
 
 

Education

Admitted to the Alberta Bar - 1987
LL.B., University of Calgary - 1985
 
 

Media Appearances

Quoted - "New Frontiers in P3", Article by Bev Cline, CBA PracticeLink, 2010.

 
 

Recent Publications

Author - "Representations and Warranties", Blakes Bulletin on Commercial Real Estate, September 2009.

Co-author - "P3 Infrastructure Projects in Alberta: The Road Less Travelled", Blakes Infrastructure Client Seminar, Montreal, Quebec, September 27, 2007.

Co-author - "Owners and the 'Standard' Construction Contract", Blakes Bulletin on Real Estate Development, October 2006.

 
     
     
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