333 Bay St, Suite 3400, Bay Adelaide Ctr, W Twr, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1979 (ON)
Counsel. Practises commercial real estate, including financings (mortgage transactions, private placements, and public offerings), acquisitions, dispositions, management/development agreements, joint ventures, and partnerships. Has acted for lenders, landlords, and tenants in credit tenant transactions; CPPIB, in a number of joint ventures; RioCan REIT, in numerous acquisitions, joint ventures, and financings; Oxford Properties in respect of a number of leasing and development matters and financings; H&R REIT in a number of acquisitions, sales, and financings; issuers/underwriters in IPOs of REITs; and for sponsors and investors in real estate–based funds. Has been recognized as a leading real estate lawyer in Chambers Canada, The Legal 500 Canada, Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law, IFLR 1000, Best Lawyers in Canada (2014 Toronto Real Estate Lawyer of the Year), and The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Project Finance, Property Development). She has also been named one of the Top 25 Women Lawyers in Canada byLexpert.
The Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) completed, on May 2, 2003, its second transaction accessing the capital markets by raising $500 million.
On October 14, 1999 a $220 million public offering of pass-through certificates was completed to finance the construction of the new TransCanada Pipelines head office tower in Calgary, Alberta.