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At the end of June 2001, the group wired US$1.2 million to Cassels Brock (a Canadian law firm), which was pooled with other funds and transferred to Tropos. A few months later, Tropos forwarded more than US$10 million to an offshore bank, [f] and the money disappeared. Hryniak (the principal of Tropos) claimed that at this point, Tropos's funds ...
Cassels was born in Quebec City, the son of the banker and businessman Robert Cassels. He was educated at Quebec High School and the University of Toronto, graduating with a BA in 1865. He was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1869, and practiced at Blake, Lash, Cassels. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1883.
The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board (TRREB), formerly the Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB), is a non-profit professional association of registered real estate brokers and salespeople in and about the Greater Toronto Area. [1] TRREB's Toronto office is located at 1400 Don Mills Road. [2]
McCarthy Tétrault LLP is a leading Canadian law firm that delivers integrated business law, litigation services, tax law, real property law, labour and employment law nationally and globally through offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montréal, Québec City, London (UK), as well as New York City. [1]
The Ontario Association of Real Estate Boards (later renamed the Ontario Real Estate Association) was founded in 1922 to organize real estate activities on a province-wide basis. [citation needed] In 1930, the Ontario government brought into law the Real Estate and Business Brokers Act. The government of Ontario codified and regulated the real ...
The Canadian property bubble refers to a significant rise in Canadian real estate prices from 2002 to present (with short periods of falling prices in 2008, 2017, and 2022). The Dallas Federal Reserve rated Canadian real estate as "exuberant" beginning in 2003. [1]
First Capital was founded in 1994 as Centrefund Realty through a 1994 IPO. [2] It started with 5 properties, and grew to 70 properties by 2000. [2] In May 2000, Riocan Real Estate Investment Trust briefly entered discussions into buying First Capital. [3]
In 1953, the firm's name was changed to Blake, Cassels & Graydon. [5] In 1998, the firm opened an office in Beijing. [6] In 2003, Blakes created the Daily Bread Toronto Law Firm Challenge, [7] which engages a number of Toronto law firms to raise money for the Daily Bread Food Bank.