Profile

Steve Jeffery is a Partner in Blaney McMurtry LLP's corporate/commercial group.

Steve emphasizes real estate financing in his practice. He has significant experience in all kinds and sizes of debt financing, including securitization work.

He has served as Blaneys' lead lawyer in many real estate financings for GE Capital. Other lender clients include Kimco Realty Corporation, an affiliate of the Kimco REIT in the United States, Laurentian Bank of Canada, KingSett Real Estate Mortgage Funds and First National Financial LP.

He has also acted for real estate companies such as Tribute Communities and the Avro Group, doing acquisitions, dispositions, development, construction and financings, including the development, financing and eventual sale of the North York City Centre and the purchase, sale and financing of several major regional shopping centres in Ontario.

Steve has significant experience with co-ownerships and the preparation of management, development, co-ownership and limited partnership documentation. He has also done  equipment financing work; commercial sales and acquisitions of businesses; general corporate commercial work; and derivatives work. Given the cyclical nature of real estate, he also has significant experience in restructuring and insolvency related work for lenders and borrowers.

Steve was head of Blaneys' business law department from 1999 to 2002. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the firm from 2005 until 2007. Steve also is the editor of the firm's widely read business law quarterly, Blaneys on Business. Steve has a Masters of Law in banking and financial services. His thesis topic was foreign bank regulation in Canada.

Articles and Papers

• Reports co-authored with Prof. M. Lacoursiere for the Uniform Law Conference of Canada (ULCC) on the United Nations Convention on Independent Guarantee and Stand-by letters of Credit, presented to the ULCC in August, 2006and August, 2008
• An article on the Supreme Court of Canada case of Crystalline Investments Ltd. v. Domgroup Ltd., published in the Banking and Finance Law Review in the winter of 2006
• Two articles on Standby Letters of Credit published in the Banking and Finance Law Review (in 1999 and 2002)
• Four chapters in the new edition of Falconbridge on Mortgages published in 2003
• A paper on letters of credit for a Law Society of Upper Canada seminar on Best Practices for Commercial Mortgage Transactions (March 2003)
• A paper on Real Property Security for a Canadian Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division seminar on Secured Financing
• A paper on Environmental Liabilities of Mortgagees for a Canadian Institute seminar on Mortgage Enforcement