Manuel Martins is a partner in Gowling WLG Canada’s Waterloo Region Office. He provides owners, investors and lenders with strategic business guidance and advice regarding the preparation and negotiation of complex and unique commercial agreements. Manuel is a past leader and current member of the firm’s Canadian Real Estate Practice Group and the founding editor of the firm’s Real Estate & Urban Development newsletter. His real estate practice is focused on purchase, sale, leasing, subdivision, condominium, limited partnership structures and land development transactions. Manuel is a member of the firm’s Financial Services Industry Group and its executive committee. He acts for lenders and borrowers, with an emphasis on commercial financings and secured transactions. Manuel’s practice extends to corporate commercial law, with an emphasis on M&A and asset and share transactions and reorganizations. He has assisted clients in cross-border transactions in various jurisdictions including the UK, the U.S., the European Union, Mexico and China. Manuel is also a past member of Gowling WLG Canada’s Board of Trustees. He has been recognized in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and The Best Lawyers in Canada and named in the Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers 2023, 2024 and 2025 lists.
On August 17, 2016, BWXT Canada Ltd. (“BWXT Canada”), a subsidiary of BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:BWXT), entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire all of the shares of the GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Canada Inc. (“GEH-C”) joint venture.
