Maxwell P. Carroll

Maxwell P. Carroll

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Lawson Lundell LLP

85 Best Lawyers awards

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Awarded Practice Areas

Real Estate Law

Biography

Maxwell practices real estate law in British Columbia and Alberta with a focus on commercial leasing, acquisition and mixed-use development.

Maxwell has an extensive commercial leasing practice which is focused on representation of institutional and privately owned landlords and representation of tenants leasing large industrial or office premises. He regularly prepares standard form leases for his landlord clients and ensures consistency of final lease documentation across their portfolio. In particular, Maxwell has been lead Western Canadian leasing counsel for a large institutional landlord and has overseen the lease preparation and negotiation of over 250 distinct leasing matters.

Maxwell has been lead counsel on numerous acquisitions and sales of income producing assets and development properties. His client’s rely on Maxwell’s experience in their negotiations of purchase agreements, due diligence, structuring, financing and closing. Maxwell has also helped numerous owners of environmentally challenged sites sell their land while limiting potential liability resulting from existing contamination.

Working closely with his developer clients, Maxwell supports the full life-cycle of complex real estate development; from feasibility, syndication and acquisition through to development approvals, marketing and sale of development units to end purchasers. His extensive experience includes projects ranging from boutique developments to large master-planned communities with multiple towers. Maxwell’s developer clients include local family owned companies and publicly traded real estate investment trusts.

Private investors in the real estate market frequently engage Maxwell to review shareholder agreements, limited partnership documentation, joint venture agreements and confirm the underlying real estate fundamentals of potential investments in the Lower Mainland.

Lawson Lundell LLP

85 Best Lawyers awards

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Overview

  • British Columbia, 2010
  • British Columbia, 2017

  • British Columbia Due Diligence Deskbook - Contributing Author
  • Canada Bar Association - ancouver Real Property Subsection, Executive Committee Member (Co-Chair), 2015 - 2017
  • Law Society of Alberta - Member
  • Law Society of British Columbia - Member
  • National Association of Industrial and Office Properties - Member
  • Urban Development Institute - Member
  • British Columbia, 2010
  • British Columbia, 2017
  • British Columbia Due Diligence Deskbook - Contributing Author
  • Canada Bar Association - ancouver Real Property Subsection, Executive Committee Member (Co-Chair), 2015 - 2017
  • Law Society of Alberta - Member
  • Law Society of British Columbia - Member
  • National Association of Industrial and Office Properties - Member
  • Urban Development Institute - Member

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2026 for work in:
  • Real Estate Law
Awards:
  • Chambers Canada: Real Estate - British Columbia
  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory: Property Development
  • Lexpert Rising Star Award 2020: Canada's Leading Lawyers Under 40

Case History

Cases
  • Experience
  • Assisting clients with the acquisition and disposition of commercial and industrial investment properties.
  • Advising clients in a variety of general corporate and commercial matters, including the acquisition of businesses, preparation and negotiation of shareholder's agreements and limited partnership agreements.
  • Acting as lead leasing counsel to a large Canadian Real Estate Investment Trust in respect to its portfolio of properties in Western Canada and in the lease preparation and negotiation of approximately 100 distinct leasing matters.
  • Acting for a BC-based developer in respect to various residential and mixed-use developments, advising on the organization and formation of various development entities, rezoning and municipal matters, financing, pre-sale purchaser documentation in compliance with the Real Estate Development Marketing Act, and conveyance of completed strata lots to individual purchasers.
  • Advising a manufacturer of electronic speed controllers for application in electric and hybrid vehicles, in its acquisition of a leader in battery charging solutions for electric vehicles and industrial machines.
  • Acting for a seniors housing trust with respect to various acquisitions of retirement homes in BC.
  • Acting for a group of investors with structuring a limited partnership and general partner and their acquisition of a student housing complex from receivership in Edmonton, Alberta.
  • Acting for a large development, investment, and management company in respect of their Western Canada operations and assisting with due diligence, corporate structuring and formation, financing and closing in their acquisition of the Ironwood Profession Building.

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