Nicole St-Louis

Partner & National Co-Leader, BLG Beyond Leasing

Ottawa
NStLouis@blg.com
613.787.3519
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Nicole is a Partner and the Co-Leader of BLG Beyond Leasing.

Nicole leads up Canada’s largest leasing group and supports clients with large national portfolios. Nicole brings a business-focused perspective to Beyond Leasing, garnered from her long experience as an executive at Canada’s largest retailer. She is the driving force behind Beyond Leasing’s unrelenting focus on process, technology and efficiency.

Nicole has over 20 years of experience in the real estate industry. She has managed large real estate portfolios and has extensive experience working with both landlords and tenants and complex project management including leading a large managed service portfolio for one Canada’s leading property owners. Nicole leads a collaborative, dedicated team of leasing specialist whose mission it is to bring clients the very best leasing services, on a fully integrated national platform, utilizing the most cutting-edge technologies and incorporating the best practices from across the country.

Experience

  • Lead a team of 11 professionals dedicated to the legal support of a portfolio consisting of 20 major shopping centres across the country, including the preparation of all legal documentation and support related to operational issues and litigation arising therefrom.
  • Assist one of Canada's largest retailers in the negotiation of retail food store, pharmacy leases and physiotherapy clinics in numerous locations across Canada ranging from regional malls, outdoor power centres and mixed-use urban projects.
  • Provides leasing support on a managed service basis to a multi-national chain of convenience stores for Ontario urban store program.

Beyond our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Member, ICSC

Community Involvement

  • Volunteer, Habitat for Humanity
  • Former Board Member, Ottawa Community Housing
  • Volunteer, BLG Reads to Kids

Awards & Recognitions

  • Recognized in the 2025 edition (and since 2020) of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® (Property Leasing).
  • Recognized as a 2023 Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer

Bar Admission & Education

  • Ontario, 2000
  • LLB (Magna Cum Laude), University of Ottawa, 1998
  • B.Soc.Sc in Political Science (Cum Laude), University of Ottawa, 1995