Robert Abrams is a partner practising commercial real estate law in the retail, office and industrial sectors and he is recognized by both clients and peers as a leading practitioner in the Province of Québec. For more than 25 years he has advised clients on transactions, large and small, involving acquisitions, development activities, financings, joint venture arrangements, construction, leasing activities (on behalf of both landlords and tenants) and dispositions. Bob has developed a high level of skill in closing deals and in structuring practical and cost-effective solutions to complicated problems.

In recent years, Bob has been involved with numerous significant real estate transactions. He has advised a major Québec-based pension fund in connection with its acquisition of substantial interests in several major New York properties, assisted an Ontario-based pension fund in connection with its dispositions of real estate interests in Montréal and has acted on behalf of Home Depot of Canada in connection with all of its site acquisitions and store developments in the Province of Quebec. He has also led a team of lawyers in connection with the acquisition by a publicly traded real estate company of more than 30 shopping centre properties in the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario over the last number of years.

Bob has been listed as a consistently recommended practitioner in the area of property development in the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory. He has also been listed in The Best Lawyers in Canada in the property development area as well as in real estate, and has achieved one of Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rankings. He is involved in numerous community activities, and is particularly proud of his work as a member of the Board of Directors of the Summit School of Montréal.

Bob studied at Cornell University and at McGill University and completed his LL.B. at the Université de Montréal in 1978.

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