Our firm’s Real Estate practice group is recognized as a leader among a multitude of operator and investor classes. KRB focuses on providing strategic advice throughout the real estate deal cycle: identifying and troubleshooting issues before they arise, our solutions-oriented approach prizes deal-certainty while contextualizing risk.

Clients benefit from our firm’s active practice and broad network of real estate intervenants to achieve their objectives.

With a secured lending practice rooted in both lender and borrower side representative work, KRB clients benefit from significant experience across the lending spectrum (including real estate lending and corporate finance work), and from perspective which fuels our secured lending team’s ability to navigate complex problems to achieve creative solutions.

Leveraging the creativity, knowledge and experience of the entire firm across multiple disciplines, including financing, litigation, M&A and real estate, our Insolvency and Restructuring Group provides a seamless range of services to our clients. This multidisciplinary approach enables KRB to offer one-stop, cost-efficient solutions that address our clients’ biggest and most complex challenges when dealing with their own liquidity issues or when affected by the insolvency of a third party.

Our team is committed to putting our clients’ strategies into action through a comprehensive understanding of their business objectives and commercial realities. This context, viewed through the lens of highly competent attorneys with a depth and breadth of experience in multiple facets of corporate and commercial law, creates a relationship that extends beyond attorney-client into a business advisory role.

Our experienced team of litigators services our clients in overseeing a variety of litigious matters; before, during, and following the litigation process. In line with our firm’s core values, our litigation professionals contextualize each litigious matter within our client’s business and commercial objectives. In this light, our clients feel secure knowing that all options, from settlement alternatives to the pursuit of legal proceedings before the courts, will be considered. Our team of litigators has experience across all Court and tribunal levels up to the Supreme Court of Canada and are supported throughout various mandates by KRB’s various practice groups to ensure the strongest technical foundation of any claim review and analysis.

Combined with our significant real estate experience, our specialized experience in environmental matters provides our landlord/tenant, lender/borrower, owner, and developer clients with a fulsome appreciation of the environmental risks inherent in the consummation of their commercial transactions. We evaluate the legal environmental risks associated with the ownership or occupancy of, development or re-development of and the acquisition, divestiture and financing of contaminated sites. We also assist our clients with legal environmental compliance matters and with risk and site management following environmental incidents.

Our Wills, Estates & Planning Group is comprised of lawyers, notaries and paraprofessionals who develop and implement later-life planning solutions that prioritize:

• wealth transfer optimization;
• reduction of later contestations;
• clear and effective planning for later-life concerns; and
• facilitating execution by liquidators of their responsibilities.

We offer complete access to leading experts in the areas of M&A, Corporate and Commercial Services, Real Estate, Banking and Finance, and Litigation, enabling our planning group to develop and implement fully-integrated solutions that achieve the wealth transfer objectives of KRB clients.

Our Strategic Structuring & Reorganization Group is comprised of lawyers, notaries and paraprofessionals who develop, implement and deliver:

• corporate services, including entity creation, organization and governance planning;
• corporate and tax reorganizations (including implementation of tax plans and memoranda);
• domestic and cross-border transfers of assets, real estate and shares (including rollovers);
• insolvency and restructuring;
• fund creation and private investments;
• franchising and other business structures (including between related entities);
• joint venture, limited partnership and management agreements; and
• shareholders’ agreements and voting trusts.

Our team has extensive experience implementing domestic and cross-border solutions responsive to the business, transactional, tax and wealth-retention objectives of KRB clients.

KRB – once a legal start-up itself and an industry disrupter – has within its DNA the expertise to counsel entrepreneurs and investors alike in the start-up and high growth company sector. We deploy our interdisciplinary experience, differentiated insight and vast network of industry leaders to help build value for our clients and their ventures.

KRB’s Emerging Companies Group regularly represents innovative founders from the very inception of an idea, providing strategic, practical guidance and hands-on, business-first counsel from the initial formation and organization of the company and throughout the strategic growth process. In addition to company and founder representation, the group regularly advises investors ranging from private companies and diversified private equity firms, to mid-market, industry-focused investment and buyout funds and earlier-stage investment firms in strategic transactions.

Our team frequently draws upon the firm’s interdisciplinary experience in equity and debt financing, M&A, commercial transactions and other practice areas to support successful outcomes for KRB clients.