Diana Lyrintzis

Partner

Diana is an attorney whose corporate/commercial transactional practice focuses on commercial real estate, banking and finance, environmental law and M&A. Prior to joining KRB, she was a partner at a top-tier Canadian law firm.

She has been providing strategic advice to clients for over a decade with respect to their secured lending and commercial real estate transactions with regards to a variety of asset classes, including industrial, commercial and multi-residential as well as in various industry sectors including manufacturing, pulp and paper and renewal energy. Diana’s banking and finance practice focuses on real estate lending, acquisition financing and the financing of the commercial operations of her clients via traditional and asset-based lending structures. Her real estate practice focuses on acquisition, divestiture, development, re-development and re-positioning of real estate assets, and on the negotiation of complex leasing matters.

Diana’s clients appreciate her practical approach to risk management in a transactional context. She has key experience in advising her clients with regards to environmental transactional and compliance risk and regularly advises on matters relating to brownfields liability and redevelopment.

Diana’s corporate/commercial practice centers around structuring joint ventures, partnerships, co-ownerships and other business relationships for her real estate and other corporate clients and drafting and negotiating their commercial agreements.

Representative Work

Acted on behalf of a leading network of 18 recognized hearing care clinics across Quebec, in connection with its acquisition of the assets of a competitor, helping to further secure our client’s reach across Quebec as well as their status as an industry leader in the provision of hearing care.

Acted for an institutional real estate player in the negotiation of a long-term extension of a lease for premises in a landmark Montreal property for in excess of 250,000 sq. ft.

Acted for an out-of-province acquirer of a portfolio of properties in the City of Sherbrooke from BTB Real Estate Investment Trust for an aggregate purchase price of over $30M

Acted for a real estate developer in connection with multiple project financings aggregating over $100M

Acted for the owner/operator of a landfill gas-to-electricity plant located in Québec, to a Canadian subsidiary of an Australian energy company

Acted in connection with the sale of a 75% indirect interest in 8 hydroelectric generating facilities in Ontario, in a transaction valued at $640M

Acted for several chartered Canadian banks in connection with structuring and implementing real estate debt financing and corporate debt financing

Acted for an out-of-province acquirer of a portfolio of properties in the City of Montreal from Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust for an aggregate purchase price of over $28M

Acted for Canada’s top physiotherapy equipment provider in its acquisition of a major player in the healthcare and physiotherapy supplies industry

Memberships

Quebec Bar

Areas of Expertise

Real Estate

Banking and Finance

Environmental

Corporate and Commercial

Mergers and Acquisitions

Education

McGill University, LL.B., B.C.L. (2005)

Concordia University, B.A. – Political Science (2001)

Year of Call

Quebec Bar (2006)

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