 Bennett Jones Education University of Ottawa, Bachelor of Commerce (Finance), Magna Cum Laude Queen's University, JD Bar Admissions Alberta, 2014 Overview Riley Whitlock's practice is focused on commercial real estate, project finance and municipal, land use planning and development. He has extensive experience in acquisition, development, financing, leasing and sale of commercial real estate, including office towers and industrial, shopping centre and condominium properties. Riley's practice also involves joint venture, co-ownership, shareholder and general and limited partnership structures and related reorganizations, general corporate and insolvency matters. He has represented public and private REITS, lenders, developers, and wholly owned municipal corporations with the acquisition, development and financing of some of the largest projects in Alberta. Riley is a member of the Law Society of Alberta, the Canadian Bar Association and the Calgary Bar Association. Additionally he is an executive member of the Canadian Bar Association, Southern Alberta Commercial Real Estate Subsection, was named as Canada Leading Lawyers for Business: Real Estate (Alberta) and recognized by Best Lawyer as "One to Watch" in Real Estate Law. Select Experience • Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, in collaboration with the City of Calgary, in coordinating a multi-parcel acquisition framework designed to accommodate phased development, varying site conditions, and future private investment across multiple locations and in the overall delivery of transit-oriented communities and various ongoing capital projects in East Village • XXIII Capital Generations Fund in its acquisition of High Plains Building 11, a 322,000 square foot class A industrial property in Rocky View County, Alberta • The vendor in the sale of a shopping centre located in south-east Calgary • Calgary Municipal Land Corporation and Calgary Stampede in a joint partnership for the development of a new convention centre hotel complex • Entity One in its subdivision, servicing, master planning and sale of residential and commercial lots comprising over 200 acres in the heart of Cochrane, Alberta • Skyline Real Estate Acquisitions in purchasing a portfolio worth in excess of $300 million, consisting of four business parks with a total of more than two million square feet of industrial space • Harvard Property Management with ongoing strategic advice regarding the development, land use and strata subdivision for the major mixed-use redevelopment Eau Claire Market project including the proposed Green Line Light Rail Transit Station • Skyline Industrial REIT in connection with the sale of a portfolio of 11 properties occupied by Cervus/Brandt Tractor in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba • Penny Lane Shopping Centre with a $257 Million credit facility, the re-organization of 700,000 square feet of space and on various lease restructurings and extension transactions of over 500,000 square feet • Skyline Retail REIT in its purchase of a 73,000 square-foot retail property in Red Deer, Alberta Recognitions & Awards Chambers Canada • Real Estate - Alberta Best Lawyers in Canada • Ones to Watch, Real Estate Law Recognized for Real Estate Law |