Jeffrey M. Citron is a partner in the firm's Toronto office. He is a member of both the Commercial Real Estate Group and the Banking and Financial Services Group and has built a formidable practice and reputation representing real estate clients comprised of land developers, builders, owners of lands and buildings and commercial lenders in complex real estate projects including commercial, residential subdivision, condominium, hotels, golf courses and various mixed-use projects.
His areas of expertise encompass commercial real estate and the development of residential subdivision lands for which he represents builders and developers in many of their projects, joint ventures and partnership relationships. He has extensive experience in structuring and implementing co-ownerships, joint ventures and limited partnership structures for the acquisition, development and construction of residential development projects consisting of both high-rise condominium projects and low-rise residential subdivision projects.
In addition, Jeffrey has extensive experience in representing many lenders on secured real estate financings and represents Canada's largest Schedule 1 Bank and many of its related entities involved in secured real estate lending. He acts for several commercial lenders in Canada who lend money on various commercial, mixed-use and specialty type assets and continues to regularly advise major Canadian institutions on large syndicated, club and bilateral debt financings including construction loans for residential, commercial and industrial development and construction financing projects.
Jeffrey has been acting for Canada’s largest bank since 1995 serving most of Ontario’s top land developers and builders. He also represents life insurance companies, institutions and private lenders in various commercial loan transactions. He has also represent various Canadian and US lenders in commercial mortgage financing transactions.
Jeffrey was named one of Canada’s leading practitioners in Real Estate Law by Lexpert® and in the 2011 to 2024 editions of Best Lawyers in Canada.
