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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices
1000 De La Gauchetière Street West
Suite 900
Montréal, QC H3B 5H4
Canada
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Line Abecassis
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partner
Career
Line Abecassis is a partner in the Commercial Real Estate Group of BLG’s Montréal office and the trusted adviser to a broad array of real estate companies. She practises in most areas of real property law, including leasing, acquisition, divestiture, and financing of real estate and development. She participated in the development of various real estate projects, such as hotels, senior housing residences, shopping centres, and office buildings. Line represented a large Canadian bank in the acquisition and financing of undivided co-ownership interest in numerous shopping centres in Québec and Ontario. She acted in the purchase of several large portfolios including recently in the purchase of 75 properties in Canada and the US with a value of over $1.5 billion.
Languages
French, English, Hebrew, Arabic
Memberships
Member, Young Bar Association of Montréal; Member, Lord Reading Law Society
Education
LLB (Gold medalist for finishing 1st of her promotion), Université de Montréal
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Real estate
(Leading individuals)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 a diverse client base of pension funds, life insurance companies, utility companies, institutional investors, family offices, public sector clients, developers, commercial landlords, tenants and REITs, on wide range of real estate matters. The team is led by Aaron Bowler in Calgary, who 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. Key figures include senior partner Sylvie Bouvette in Montreal, who represents sellers and purchasers in joint ventures; Frank Arnone in Toronto, who assists clients with complex investment structures; Line Abecassis in Montreal, an expert in acquisitions, divestitures and the leasing of industrial, office, and retail and mixed-use buildings; and David Longcroft, an experienced specialist in mixed-use projects and associated air space parcel subdivisions.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Business immigration
- Pensions
- Business immigration
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Aviation
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- Banking and finance
- Business immigration
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Other transport
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A