Mark Brennan is a commercial real estate lawyer with more than twenty-five years of experience advising pension funds, real estate investment trusts, off-shore funds, financial institutions, partnerships and real estate corporations. Mark has expertise in financings, acquisitions and developments and is experienced in directing and overseeing large teams of lawyers in due diligence and transaction work. He is rated in the Canadian Martindale & Hubbell Legal Directory with the highest possible ratings for both legal ability and ethics.
Mark's recent experience includes acting for:
- DEGI International and DEGI Global Business in their acquisitions and financings of Canadian commercial real estate; these entities are German open-ended funds connected with Dresdner Bank, the Aberdeen Group (one of Europe's largest property fund managers) and the Credit Suisse Group;
- Toronto International Film Festival Inc. in the financing of its downtown Toronto office/cinema/retail project; and
- CDPQ Mortgage Investment Corporation, the mortgage arm of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, in various Canadian real estate financings.