December 13, 2011


John Torrey, Jon Holmstrom, David Johnson, Andrea Centa and Louise Kennedy represented the Toronto Dominion Bank.

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Dundee Real Estate Investment Trust ("Dundee") purchased from affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors LP ("Blackstone") and Slate Properties Inc. ("Slate") a Canadian office portfolio consisting of 29 properties located in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto and Ottawa for a purchase price of $831.8 million.

In connection with the financing of Dundee's purchase, The Toronto-Dominion Bank was represented by Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP (John Torrey, Jon Holmstrom, David Johnson, Andrea Centa and Louise Kennedy) and McCarthy Tetrault LLP (John Currie, Tzen-Yi Goh and Greg Barker) CIBC Mortgages Inc., as well as Allied's lender, The Bank of Nova Scotia, were each represented by McCarthy Tetrault (John Currie and Paul Galbraith).