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Ms Jillian Shortt
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Partner
Career
Jillian (She/Her/Hers) is the leader of the Dentons Canada Real Estate sector group and co-lead of the Real Estate, Development and Planning group in Calgary. She is also a member of Dentons’ Pension Plan Real Estate Investment Group. Jillian’s practice focuses on commercial real estate and real estate financing transactions. In her transactional practice, Jillian represents a wide range of clients including pension funds and their advisors, real estate companies and public sector entities. She has extensive experience in acquisitions and dispositions of real estate (whether office, industrial, retail or hotel) and the creation of single and two tier joint ventures structures and limited partnerships used in a wide variety of real estate transactions. In her real estate financing practice, Jillian represents pension plans, national banks and insurance companies acting as lenders and her expertise includes traditional real estate financing, construction and project financing, private and public mortgage bond financings as well as credit tenant lease transactions.
Languages
English
Memberships
- Member, NAIOP Toronto (National Association of Industrial and Office Properties)
- Member, AFIRE (Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate)
- Member, Ontario Bar Association
Education
University of Toronto, 1993, LLB
Queen’s University, 1989, BComm (Hons)
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Real estate
(Leading individuals)Dentons leverages the bench strength of its global network to provide a comprehensive service to real estate companies and developers, entrepreneurs, owners and tenants of commercial retail, office and industrial buildings, shopping centres and hotels, in addition to purchasers, sellers and investors (financial institutions, pension funds, REITs), on a diverse spectrum of real estate matters. The practice is led by Clark Kassian in Calgary, who brings expertise to acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, land development and commercial leasing; Katarzyna Sliwa in Toronto, who manages complex negotiations related to approval processes for development and redevelopment projects; rail, hotel and leisure specialist Lyle Zulak in Calgary; Robert Bothwell in Edmonton, who joined from Bennett Jones LLP in February 2023; Sheldon Disenhouse in Toronto, who focuses on commercial leasing; Philip Rimer in Ottawa, who specializes in real estate and infrastructure transactions with Indigenous stakeholders; Scott Wilson in Vancouver, who brings experience to acquisitions, dispositions, reorganizations, and energy and infrastructure projects; and Marie-Andrée Thibault, who arrived at the Montreal office from Fasken in May 2023. Other key figures include Jillian Shortt, who operates out of the Toronto and Calgary offices and who assists with the creation of single and two-tier joint venture structures and limited partnerships. Isaiah Banach joined as counsel in May 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
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