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Mariella Lo Papa Montréal Partner/Associé

Mariella Lo Papa

Partner | Co-Leader, Real Estate Law Fasken
Jurisdiction Québec, 1996
Language(s) English, French, Italian
Office(s) Montréal
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Overview

Mariella Lo Papa is Co-Leader of National Real Estate which is a fully integrated national practice group, incorporating best practices in order to deliver seamless service to national clients across the country.  She also co-leads Montreal’s largest collaborative, dedicated team of real estate professionals and has been actively involved in talent acquisition, growth strategy and succession planning for the team.

Mariella has over 25 years of experience in the real estate industry. She has managed large national real estate portfolios and has extensive experience working with property managers, brokers, landlords and tenants in commercial leasing.

In recent years, Mariella has been called upon to represent a wide array of clients ranging from private and public corporations, promoters, developers and investment funds. She has assisted them in the repositioning of shopping centres, mixed-use real estate acquisitions and dispositions, and development projects (including industrial properties, mixed use properties, data centres, retail condominium structures, excess lands and residential towers).

Having spent several years working in-house, Mariella is uniquely positioned to appreciate the challenges client teams face and is well-known for being highly responsive and providing practical value-add business and legal counsel.  Mariella has extensive transactional experience across a variety of industries, including:

  • the data centre industry, where she has negotiated several major long-term design-build leases;
  • distribution and logistics sector, where Mariella assisted several investment funds with sale-lease back transactions; and
  • retail industry, where Mariella led multiple high-profile transactions involving both national and international luxury retailors, which she also assists with ongoing operational matters.

She has successfully negotiated transactions with some of the highest-profile companies including Amazon, Facebook/Metaverse, Square  and Airbnb, and major industry players, including Canada Lands, Choice Properties, RioCan REIT, Holt Renfrew, SSense, Tesla, Canadian Tire, Loblaws, Metro, Ivanhoe Cambridge, Spear Street Capital, Oxford Properties, LaSalle Investment Management, Broccolini Construction, Greystone and TDAM, to name a few.

Mariella has been recognized multiple times as a leading practitioner by Chambers, Legal 500 Canada, Lexpert and Best Lawyers for her expertise in real estate and Thompson Reuters (formerly Acritas Star) for her exceptional client experience skills.

Achievements

Client Work

  • Carrefour Langelier acquired by Group Mach in a C$60 million transaction,
  • Advised La Coop Fédérée in sale and leaseback of its Montréal head office,
  • Sale-Leaseback of Avon Canada's Montreal facilities for $41 million,
  • Intertape Polymer acquires Cantech for US$67 million,
  • Parkland Fuel acquires the majority of the Canadian business and assets of CST Brands for approximately C$965 million from Alimentation Couche-Tard,
  • Volume leasing for Primaris Management Inc. (ongoing), Ongoing since June 2014
  • Maison de Radio-Canada enters development project for CBC/Radio-Canada,
  • Represented Holt, Renfrew & Co. Limited in the negotiation of anchor lease (120,000 sq.ft) in Square One Shopping Centre, Toronto, Ontario,
  • Represented Caesar Stone in the leasing of their first showroom premises in the Province of Québec,

Career & Education

Education

  • LLB Université de Montréal

Memberships & Affiliations

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Québec Bar
  • Institut de développement urbain du Québec
  • International Council of Shopping Centers

Knowledge

News

Publications

Article Exclusivity clauses in Québec

Speaking Engagements

Commercial Leases: Remedies Available To Lessors Against Defaulting Lessees Presented in a private conference. location location Montreal Crombie

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