800 Victoria Sq, Suite 3500, PO Box 242, The Stock Exchange Twr, Montréal, QC
Year called to bar: 1996 (QC)
Mariella Lo Papa is Co-Leader of the Quebec Real Estate Law practice group and Co-Leader of the firm’s Real Estate Law practice group. She has over 25 years of experience focused on commercial leasing of all asset classes, acquisitions and dispositions of commercial real estate, and development projects. Mariella has extensive transactional experience across a variety of industries and asset classes, on behalf of real estate developers, private institutional investors, both local and foreign, financial institutions, pension fund managers and Crown corporations. She advises property managers, owners, tenants, brokers, buyers and sellers in respect of office, retail, industrial, multi-use, multi-residential and institutional properties, 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 US purchasers and national and international luxury retailors, which she also assists with ongoing operational matters.
On March 6, 2015, a landlord group led by Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc. and Oxford Properties Group completed a transaction involving the termination of leases at 11 properties that had previously been leased by Target Canada Co. (Target), owner and operator of shopping centers, and a unit of Target Corp., for $138 million.
