Aaron Bowler > Borden Ladner Gervais LLP > Calgary, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices
Centennial Place, East Tower
520 3rd Avenue SW, Suite 1900
Calgary, AB T2P 0R3
Canada
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Aaron Bowler
Work Department
Commercial Real Estate
Position
Aaron Bowler, Partner and National Business Leader, Commercial Real Estate
Career
Aaron is a Partner in BLG’s Commercial Real Estate group. He has extensive experience in all aspects of commercial real estate including hospitality, commercial leasing, project development, and development financing.
He plays a leading role in large acquisition, financing, development, restructuring and securitization transactions. He also provides municipal law advice to clients.
Aaron has significant REIT experience and has been involved in the establishment, financing and disposition of numerous real estate investment trusts.
Aaron works on the real estate, financing and leasing aspects of numerous insolvencies and restructurings, public finance, commercial real estate, property development law and construction law. He also advises in the area of public-private partnerships, alternative finance projects, public procurement and complex construction projects, acting regularly for both the public and private sectors.
He provides rail regulatory advice to railways throughout Canada, particularly on applications under s.98 of the Canada Transportation Act; mediations; arbitrations; public and private crossing negotiations and disputes involving railways, utilities, road authorities, and municipalities; the doctrines of inter-jurisdictional immunity and paramountcy; and real estate.
Memberships
- Advisory Board Member, Practical Law Canada
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, The Law Society of Alberta
- Member, The Law Society of Manitoba
- Member, the Manitoba Bar Association
Education
- Alberta, 2008
- Manitoba, 2002
Bar Admission
- LLB, University of Manitoba, 2001
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Real estate
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP employs the full bench strength of over 800 lawyers in 5 national locations in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal, to advise pension funds, life insurance companies, utility companies, institutional investors, family offices, public sector clients, developers, commercial landlords, tenants and REITs, on wide range of matters across the practice area. Aaron Bowler heads the team in Calgary and brings experience to high-value acquisitions and dispositions, financings, developments and restructurings, across such asset classes as office towers, hotels, shopping centres, railways and resorts. Other figures of note include senior partner Sylvie Bouvette in Montreal, who represents sellers and purchasers in joint ventures; Frank Arnone in Toronto, a specialist in complex investment structures; and David Longcroft in Vancouver, an experienced specialist in high-value, mixed-use projects. Associate Peyman Ghaemi provides key support in Toronto.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- Labour and employment
- Business immigration
- Business immigration
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- International trade
- Banking and finance
- Business immigration
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Other transport
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A
- Intellectual property