Brian Salpeter is a partner who specializes in corporate and commercial law. His practice focuses on real estate and corporate/commercial law, with an emphasis on acquisitions and dispositions, real estate development and financings, and corporate finance and securities. Brian has represented domestic and foreign public and private companies on transactions in Canada, the United States and Europe.

He has recently acted for the owners of Place Bonaventure to create a commercial condominium of the complex and the subsequent sale of various components of Place Bonaventure. Other representative transactions include the sale of Dominion Square Building, sale of Domaine d'Iberville, Longueuil, and Place de Mérici, Québec City, sale of El Paso Corporation’s interest in Coastal Petrochemical L.P. to Petro-Canada, Amot Investment Inc.'s investment in E-Commerce Place, purchase of 2020 University, sale of 2001 University, the sale of various businesses for Amcor Limited across the U.S. and Canada, and various cross-border exchangeable share transactions, including the sale of STS Systems Inc., a retail software business to NSB Retail Systems PLC, a UK-based leading supplier of software solutions for retailers for CDN$600 million.

Brian is a member of the board of directors of a major real estate developer in Montréal. He is also a member of the Canadian Bar Association. As well, Brian is a member of the firm’s Opinion Committee. Brian was included in LEXPERT Magazine’s listing of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 lawyers as well as in both the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 lawyers in Canada and The Lexpert/Thomson 2006 US Guide to Canada’s 100 Most Creative Lawyers as one of the 40 corporate lawyers to watch. He was also rated by Chambers Global as an up and coming real estate practitioner and he is listed in Woodward/White’s The Best Lawyers in Canada in the real estate category.

Brian received both his B.A. in Economics and Political Science in 1990, and his B.C.L., as well as his LL.B. in 1994 from McGill University. He became a partner in 2001.

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