Sidney H. "Sid" Troister

Sidney H. "Sid" Troister


Torkin Manes LLP

Recognized since 2006

Toronto, Ontario

Practice Areas

Legal Malpractice Law

Real Estate Law

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A senior partner in our Commercial Real Estate Group, Sidney has a very broad business and commercial law practice. In addition to his traditional real estate law practice involving the purchase, sale and financing of commercial property, he is consulted regularly by industry, title insurers and lawyers for his expertise and his practical and creative approach to real estate problem solving, trouble shooting, and getting deals done. He also serves as counsel to the Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company and title insurers, providing opinions, strategy and litigation support regarding the standard of practice of real estate lawyers in Ontario. He is also an arbitrator and mediator of real estate and commercial leasing disputes. He is considered one of the leading members of the Ontario real estate bar. From 1990 to 2000, he was the co-head of the Real Estate Law section of the Ontario Bar Admission Course. He continues to chair the Law Society of Upper Canada’s annual Real Estate Law Summit which he founded in 2004. A noted teacher, he is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education programmes for the Law Society, the Ontario Bar Association, and many local Ontario law associations on a wide range of real estate law-related topics. In 2008, he was awarded the Law Society Medal for his contribution to the practice of law in Ontario.Sidney is the author of "The Law of Subdivision Control in Ontario", a text on Section 50 of the Planning Act and is generally considered by Ontario lawyers as the leading expert on subdivision control in the province. He co-authored "Real Estate Conveyancing in Ontario: A Nineties Perspective", for the Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company, which analyzed the role of lawyers in real estate transactions in Ontario. He is a contributing author to "Agreements of Purchase and Sale" and to the 5th edition of "Falconbridge on the Law of Mortgages".Sidney has authored special bulletins for the legal profession on mortgage fraud in real estate transactions, published annotations on leading judicial decisions and issued cautions to the profession on the standard of real estate practice. He is a past member of the Executive of the Real Property Section of the Ontario Bar Association and was the co-chair of the 2002 Special Lectures of The Law Society of Upper Canada. He chairs The Law Society of Upper Canada’s Annual Real Estate Law Summit. In 2015, he was elected a Bencher (governor) of the Law Society of Upper Canada. Much in demand as a speaker, Sidney has been a leader and educator in continuing education programmes for lawyers in Ontario.

Location
  • 151 Yonge Street, Suite 1500
    Toronto, ON M5C 2W7
    Canada
Bar Admissions
  • Ontario, 1974
  • Ontario, Designated Chartered Arbitrator (C. Arb.): ADR Institute of Canada
  • Ontario, Certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Real Estate Law 2004
Affiliations
  • ADR Institute of Ontario - Member
  • American College of Mortgage Attorneys - Member

Torkin Manes LLP
Toronto, Ontario

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Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Real Estate Law, Toronto, Canada (2024)
  • Real Estate Law, Toronto, Canada (2021)
  • Real Estate Law, Toronto, Canada (2015)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2024 for work in:
  • Legal Malpractice Law
  • Real Estate Law
Awards:
  • Awarded Law Society medal 2008
  • Recipient Ontario Bar Association Award for Excellence in Real Estate 2000
  • Certified Specialist Real Estate Law

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