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About Graham

Graham's practice focuses on real property transactions, developments and financing, general corporate and commercial matters, infrastructure, public-private partnerships and other major projects. He has experience advising vendors, purchasers, developers and proponents concerning a wide range of corporate matters, development projects and commercial transactions.

Graham has advised clients in a variety of industries, including seniors' care, gaming, data centres, mining, engineering, construction, hotels, shopping centres, office towers, energy, resort and hospitality, commercial real estate development and financial institutions.

In 2018, Graham completed a six-month secondment with a large Canadian real estate investment, development and management company where he worked on a number of international investment projects as well as a range of in-house matters.

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Corporate/Commercial:

  • Advising a hotel chain in the sale of its brand and business in a transaction valued at C$168-million

  • Advising landlords and tenants in the leasing of commercial properties

  • Advising numerous land developers in the development of land parcels for a mixed-use commercial and residential development

  • Advising lenders and borrowers in financing real estate developments

  • Advising vendors and purchasers in the sale of commercial real estate

  • Advising a US purchaser in the acquisition and leaseback of a portfolio of commercial properties across Canada

  • Advising a purchaser in the acquisition of a large portfolio of seniors' homes across Canada

  • Advising a purchaser in the acquisition of a large ski resort in Canada

  • Advising an operating entity on the divestiture of numerous real property assets to a First Nation

Infrastructure:

  • Advising a consortium in achieving financial close on two projects valued at C$635-million to design, build, finance, operate and maintain 18 elementary schools and 9 joint-use facilities in Saskatchewan

  • Advising a consortium in achieving financial close on a C$751-million contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a hospital in the Northwest Territories

  • Advising a consortium in achieving financial close on a C$1.1-billion contract to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a hydroelectric generating station in British Columbia

  • Advising lenders in relation to a secondary market transaction involving the sale of equity interests in a portfolio of Canadian P3 projects

  • Advising a First Nation on a significant project involving the design, build, financing, operation and maintenance of new infrastructure

Awards & Recognition

Graham has been recognized in the following publications:

  • The Best Lawyers in Canada – 2025–2027 (Real Estate Law)

  • The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2026 (Real Estate – Property Development)

  • Chambers Canada Legal Guide 2026 (Real Estate – British Columbia)

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada 2024 (Real Estate Law)

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Education

Admitted to the British Columbia Bar – 2014
JD, Western University – 2013
BA (Hon.), Queen's University – 2009

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