Greg Howard is a partner with a practice focused primarily on commercial real estate acquisitions, development, financing and leasing. He also has broad experience in complicated real estate workouts and restructurings, arbitrations and advisory assignments as well as corporate/commercial matters. Since 1980, Greg has represented leading companies and investment vehicles, developers, financial institutions and public authorities in connection with major real estate projects, joint ventures, financings, leasing transactions and restructuring of indebtedness. He has been involved in projects outside of Canada, as well as in this country.

Greg has played a principal role in a number of prominent transactions and real estate developments, including First Canadian Place, Toronto, BCE Place, Toronto, Bankers Hall, Calgary, Place Ville Marie, Montréal, World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa, major regional shopping centres such as Yorkdale Shopping Centre, Toronto, the creation of real estate investment trusts (such as the Innvest Real Estate Investment Trust which currently owns the largest hotel portfolio in Canada) and some of the largest sale and leasing transactions done in Canada, including the sale of the TrizecHahn portfolio for proceeds of approximately $1.7 billion and the Bell Canada portfolio sale and leaseback.

As a result of his expertise, Greg is frequently asked to speak and write on commercial real estate topics, including real estate acquisitions, real estate financings, joint ventures and leasing. In addition, he was a lecturer at the Bar Admission Course of Ontario for several years.

Greg is listed in Law Business Research's The Who's Who of Business Lawyers as a foremost real estate practitioner and is recognized annually in the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory, the LEXPERT/American Lawyer Media's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global's The World's Leading Lawyers and Euromoney's The Best of the Best.  The Chamber Global The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2007 directory reported sources as saying he "is strategic in his approach and consistently grasps the issues without a moment's notice".

Greg received an LL.B. (Honours) from the University of Toronto in 1978.

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