Osler is proud to provide ongoing advice to Dream Unlimited Corp., one of Canada’s leading real estate companies with over $15.0 billion of assets under management in North America and Europe, and its entities including Dream Industrial REIT, Dream Office REIT, and Dream Alternatives. Some of our transaction advice includes:
- DREAM Unlimited Corp. in its agreement to form a joint venture with Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. The joint venture will maximize the value of CP’s surplus real estate portfolio by leveraging the experience and expertise of DREAM to develop select properties.
- Dream Unlimited Corp. in connection with the formation and initial public offering of Dream Hard Asset Alternatives Trust and acquisition by Dream Alternatives of its approximately $725 million of initial assets.
- Dream Industrial REIT on its $498.5 million acquisition of a national industrial portfolio from KingSett Capital.
- Dream Industrial REIT on its $155 million initial public offering and listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange and its purchase of two industrial portfolios across Canada for a purchase price of approximately $575 million and $159 million, respectively.
- Dream Office REIT and H&R REIT on their $1.266 billion acquisition of Scotia Plaza from The Bank of Nova Scotia, the largest single asset real estate transaction completed in Canada.
- Dream Office REIT on its $1.4 billion acquisition of Whiterock REIT.
- Dream Office REIT in its sale of a $2.4 billion real estate portfolio to GE and concurrent investment by GE in Dream REIT, the largest real estate transaction ever completed in Canada.
- Dream Asset Management Corporation in connection with a reorganization of the management structure of Dream Office REIT.
- Dream Asset Management Corporation in connection with the spin-off of DREAM Unlimited Corp. by Dundee Corporation by means of a plan of arrangement.
- Dream Industrial REIT in connection with its take-over bid for all of the shares of C2C Industrial Properties Inc. and subsequent going private amalgamation of DIR Industrial Properties Inc. and C2C Industrial Properties Inc.
- Dream Global REIT in connection with its acquisition of an approximately $1 billion portfolio of real estate assets in Germany and $447.5 million initial public offering in Canada.
- Dream Office REIT in connection with its acquisition of Realex Properties Corp.