1055 West Hastings St, Suite 1700, The Guinness Tower, Vancouver, BC
Year called to bar: 2005 (BC)
Martha is a partner in our Financial Services Group in Osler’s Vancouver office. Martha has broad experience in all types of commercial lending files, including term and revolving facilities, participation and syndicated agreements and convertible facilities. Her lending experience includes traditional covenant-based loans, asset-backed lending, project finance, real estate financing and construction loans, cross-border transactions and experience with trust indentures, intercreditor agreements and other multi lender arrangements. Martha regularly acts for lenders, debtors, administrative agents and trustees. Martha also acts for purchasers and vendors in connection with commercial real estate acquisitions and leasing transactions, including sale and leasebacks.
First Quantum Minerals Ltd. announced that it acquired Lumina Copper Corp. in a cash and share transaction valued at approximately $470 million. The transaction was carried out by way of a statutory plan of arrangement pursuant to the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia). As a result of completion of the transaction, First Quantum now owns the Taca Taca project in Argentina, one of the world's most promising undeveloped copper deposits.