B. Glenn Leung is a partner in the Vancouver office practising in the Real Property & Planning Group.
Mr. Leung's practice involves extensive work with real estate developers. He regularly advises clients on planning and development issues related to the acquisition, structuring, financing, development, construction and sale of development property, including advice on rezoning issues, subdivision and servicing issues, land title issues, strata title issues and Real Estate Development Marketing Act disclosure issues. Mr. Leung also assists clients on the acquisition, financing and disposition of commercial investment and resort properties.
His recent experience includes:
· acting for the developers of a number of multi-family residential, mixed use and commercial developments (including phased and leasehold developments) including all aspects related to land acquisition, debt and equity financing, rezoning, subdivision, development approvals, marketing and sales;
· acting for the developers of single family residential developments and master planned communities;
· structuring joint venture and partnership agreements for the acquisition and development of real estate;
· advising on private equity lender investment of subordinated debt for development projects;
· acting for purchasers and vendors of commercial investment and resort properties (including a winery, shopping centres, industrial properties, apartment buildings and office buildings);
· acting for the developer of a master planned golf course community;
· acting for purchasers and vendors on commercial sale and lease back transactions;
· advising investment property owners with respect to property management, redevelopment and lease issues; and
· advising on Strata Property Act issues and dealings with strata corporations.
Mr. Leung appears in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the area of real estate law.
Mr. Leung is a contributing author of a chapter dealing with real estate purchase agreements in the British Columbia Real Estate Practice Manual. He also authored an article entitled "The Emergence of Leasehold Strata Developments" published in the 2005 LEXPERT/American Lawyer Media's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory 2005.
Mr. Leung obtained his BA (Economics) in 1987 and his LLB in 1988 from the University of Victoria. He was called to the British Columbia bar in 1989.