TOP ONTARIO REGIONAL FIRMS
MINDEN GROSS LLP
MINDENGROSS.COM
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Total lawyers: 55
Office: Toronto
Core practice areas: Bankruptcy and insolvency; corporate
commercial; litigation; real estate and commercial
leasing; tax
Key clients: Bentall Properties Ltd.; Fieldgate Development
Construction Ltd.; First Gulf Corp.;
The Global Group; H&R REIT;
Royal Bank of Canada
Notable mandates: Represented H&R
REIT in the acquisition of Atrium
on Bay for a total purchase price of
$344.8 million; represented First
Gulf Corp. on the re-development
of the Toronto Sun building.
Star alumni: Global Group senior vice
president David Glass; Gold Seal
Management Inc. vice president
Neil Sigler; Lanterra Developments co-founder Mark Mandelbaum; Primaris Management Inc.
vice president of legal Mordecai
Bobrowsky; Rogers Communications general counsel David Miller;
Royal Bank of Canada European
head of wealth management
compliance Tamara Vanmeggelen;
Teknion president and CEO
David Feldberg; writer and speaker
Mark Weisleder.
Affiliations: Meritas Law Firms
Worldwide
The firm: Minden Gross was founded
in 1950 by commercial real estate
practitioners Arthur Minden,
Edwin Pivnick, and Morris Gross.
Strategic recruitment fostered the
expansion of the firm's practice areas.
Today, Minden Gross is a multiservice law firm serving institutional
clients and entrepreneurs in various
markets.
"The core of our practice is local,"
says managing partner Raymond
Slattery. "We've grown over the last
decade but not by any quantum leap."
However, the firm has also "done
very well" from international
referrals through Meritas, he adds.
Technological advances will require the
firm to continue to adapt. "The business is
changing," acknowledges Slattery. "We need
to stay on top of market needs and make
sure we're able to adapt to the changing
needs of our clients."
Named Ontario's Top
Regional Firm
by Canadian Lawyer magazine
Whether conducting business in Canada or
across the globe, we understand the realities
of your work.
Our clients benefit from our relationships with
major institutions, government authorities
and law firms nationally and internationally.
Eldon Bennett
Managing Partner
ebennett@airdberlis.com ยท 416.865.7704
airdberlis.com
Brookfield Place, 181 Bay Street,
Suite 1800, Box 754, Toronto, ON M5J 2T9
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