Catherine Guertin  

Catherine Guertin is Regional Leader of our Commercial Real Estate Group in Montréal. Her practice is focused on all aspects of real estate law, including real estate developments, acquisitions and dispositions, commercial leases, agreements creating rights of superficies, emphyteusis agreements, servitudes, title searches and correction of title defects, mining law and telecommunications law.

• Lead lawyer of a BLG team that participated in the development of the new Montréal campus of BCE Inc.
• Represents both Bell Canada and Nexacor Realty Management Inc. in the management of Bell Canada's real estate portfolio.
• Represents Canada's largest real estate investment trust in the preparation and negotiation of its leases in the Province of Québec.
• Lead lawyer of the team that participated in the transfer of over 300 properties and of all leases when Bell Nordiq Group Inc. privatised the Bell Nordiq Income Fund.
• Coordinated and 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 and strip malls, for a consideration exceeding 70 million dollars.
• Participated in mining law transactions involving considerations of between 15.2 million dollars and 250 million dollars.
• Participated in various acquisitions and 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 Château Montebello and the Fairmont Kenauk.

• Speaker at the 6th Edition of the Advanced Conference on the negotiation, drafting and performance of commercial leases organized by The Canadian Institute, June 2011.
• Speaker at the Conference on commercial leases organized by Les Éditions Yvon Blais, October 14, 2011.
• Author, "La clause d'usage et la clause d'exclusivité en matière de louage commercial," published in Le Bail commercial, Collection Blais 2011.
• Speaker at the Advanced Conference on Commercial Leases organized by The Canadian Institute, June 2012.
• Author of article cited in a Québec Superior Court decision: "La clause d'usage et la clause d'exclusivité en matière de louage commercial," published in Le Bail commercial - Collection Blais 2011 (article cited in 2855-0523 Québec Inc. v. Ivanhoe Cambridge Inc. (C.S., 2011‑11-21), 2011 QCCS 6624, SOQUIJ AZ-50812351, 2012EXP-572, J.E. 2012-316).
• Quoted in "Trois conseils de pros pour éviter les bévues coûteuses," Les Affaires newspaper, week of March 14, 2009.
• Quoted in "Comment négocier un bail," Les Affaires newspaper, week of March 14, 2009.
• Quoted in "Des clauses plus à risque," Les Affaires newspaper, week of March 14, 2009.
• Quoted in "L'immobilier reste épargné par la crise. Comment négocier un bail," Les Affaires newspaper, week of March 14, 2009.

• 2012 finalist for inclusion on the list of "Leading Lawyers under 40 – Rising Stars," Lexpert®.