Catherine Guertin

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work: Assisted Northern Property REIT, in its creation of a $3 billion national multi-family REIT through the acquisition of True North Apartment REIT
  a C$535 million multi-family portfolio managed by Starlight Investments Ltd.
  Lead lawyer of a BLG team that participated in the development of the new Montreal campus of BCE Inc.
  Represents both Bell Canada
  ?SNC-LAVALIN O&M SOLUTIONS INC. ?in the management of Bell Canada's real estate portfolio.
  Represents Canada's largest real estate investment trust in the preparation
  negotiation of its leases in the Province of Quebec.
  Lead lawyer of the team that participated in the transfer of over 300 properties
  of all leases when Bell Nordiq Group Inc. privatised the Bell Nordiq Income Fund.
  Coordinated
  prepared all the documents required for the transfer of more than 250 other properties when Bell Nordiq Income Fund completed the initial offering of its units in April 2002, the first of its kind in the telecommunications sector.
  Participated in the acquisition of a real estate portfolio composed of shopping centres
  strip malls, for a consideration exceeding 70 million dollars.
  Participated in mining law transactions involving considerations of between 15.2 million dollars
  250 million dollars.
  Participated in various acquisitions
  dispositions of commercial properties worth, in some cases, more than 135 million dollars.
  Participated in the sale of seven Canadian hotels, including the Fairmont, the Chateau Montebello
  the Fairmont Kenauk.