First National Financial LP, represented by @Alessia Di Geso, Business Development Manager, Commercial Financing, closed a long-term financing (guaranteed 10—year term) for a mixed commercial and residential real estate project, located in the heart of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie, in Montréal. The Gascon & associates team, led by Nicolas Lanthier, Attorney, and his colleagues Catherine Demers, Attorney, and Marie-Chantale Dubé, Notary, […]

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Faced with the current public health emergency related to COVID-19, the Minister of Justice authorized on March 27, 2020…

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On March 15, 2020, the Minister of Justice and the Chief Justice of Québec issued Order 2020–4251 to suspend deadlines of civil proceedings and of extinctive prescriptions and forfeitures in civil cases.

Real estate acquisitions by non-residents, both in Québec and in the rest of Canada, as well as elsewhere in the world, are not a new phenomenon. For several years, there has been an increase in transactions by non-residents of Canada, which has significantly increased the value of the real estate market. To limit this phenomenon, […]

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This article is a review of some recent decisions made by Québec courts regarding commercial leasing during this pandemic.

This article is an update on a BloG article published on August 26, 2019, which dealt with the announcement made by the Québec Minister of Finance to amend the tax legislation and impose certain measures designed to counter aggressive tax planning in the context of the action plan to ensure tax fairness. Among these measures, […]