Noella M. Milne

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work: Acting in acquisitions of numerous shopping centres, office buildings, hotels
  development properties, including consideration of structure of transaction, negotiating
  drafting agreements of purchase
  sale, co-ownership arrangements, property management agreements
  negotiating
  acting on financings for acquisitions.
  Acting for various banks
  trust companies as well as for borrowers in connection with the financing of real property, including financing of major hotels, shopping centres, office towers
  development projects.
  Headed up the legal team acting for George Brown College in connection with its $200-million Waterfront Campus Development Project, which involved the creation of an integrated facility including academic buildings, student spaces
  a recreation centre.
  Part of the team acting for the City of Ottawa in connection with the establishment of a Light Rail Transit System through a public-private partnership.
  Acted for George Brown College in connection with its acquisition of a Student Residence on the Pan/Parapan Am Games Athlete's Village Site.
  Acted for a pension fund
  a large private corporation in the acquisition of a $1-billion portfolio of shopping centres in Ontario.
  Acted for a consortium, including a pension fund, a financial institution
  a large private corporation, in the acquisition of a $900-million portfolio of office buildings across Canada.
  Part of the team acting for Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board in its acquisition of Cadillac Fairview Corporation (CFC). This was a major
  complex transaction involving several billion dollars as CFC was one of the largest owners, managers
  developers of commercial real estate in North America.
  Part of the real estate team acting for Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) in connection with the development of the Broadcast Centre in Toronto. Project involved structuring arrangements for long term leases of two future office towers, agreements regarding a proposed condominium project
  agreements involving the construction
  financing of the CBC Broadcast Centre.
  Acted for Context Development Ltd. in the negotiation of the acquisition
  development of its condominium projects, including The Spire, Tip Top Lofts, Kensington Place, Radio City Lofts, Mozo
  District Lofts.
  Acted on the purchase of some of Canada's leading hotels, including, The Fairmont Chateau Laurier
  The St. Regis Hotel Vancouver.