Ian Cassie

Ian Cassie is the senior member of the Real Estate Practice Group in Vancouver.

Ian provides practical, timely advice on a broad range of real estate issues – land use approvals, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, rights of way and other less than fee simple rights, ownership disputes, liability concerns.

Ian advises clients in B.C.'s core business including:

• Transportation – rights of way, including regulatory issues;
• Mining – ownership of minerals, rights of way, surface use;
• Forestry - ownership of timber, rights of way, use by other industrial users; and
• Real Estate development – land use approvals, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing.

Ian provides legal services through Ian Cassie Law Corporation. 

Selected Experience

• Canadian institutional investor provides $126 million second lien facilities to Whistler Blackcomb Holdings in $300 million IPO and reorganization
• BHP Billiton Canada acquires Athabasca Potash in $331 million deal

Publications

• Mineral Rights in British Columbia - An Overview
• New Strata Property Act Comes Into Effect in B.C. on July 1, 2000

Presentations

• Good Deal Gone Bad
• Lorman Education Services - Easements, Covenants and Similar Rights in British Columbia

Membership/Affiliations

• ICSC – International Council of Shopping Centres
• NAIOP – National Association of Industrial & Office Properties