With nearly two decades of experience, Adina is a leading litigator in municipal law, expropriation, property taxation, environmental, and energy law. She is widely recognized for her depth of knowledge in these specialized areas and frequently acts in precedent-setting matters involving complex regulatory and public law issues. Her clients, ranging from developers and industrial landowners to energy and infrastructure companies, rely on her for strategic advice and effective advocacy before administrative tribunals and courts.
Adina’s practice spans the full spectrum of development-related legal challenges, including expropriation, zoning, permitting, property assessment and tax exemptions, environmental compliance, and energy rate approvals. She is also highly experienced in navigating public sector and regulatory frameworks, including access to information, lobbying, and legislative drafting.
A respected thought leader, Adina is a frequent speaker and writer on expropriation, municipal law, public law, assessment and taxation, and environmental matters. Her expertise supports the real estate industry across all stages of development and operation, particularly where government regulation and land use intersect. She plays an active role in professional and industry associations, and her contributions to the legal profession have earned her repeated recognition by Benchmark Litigation, Lexpert, and Best Lawyers.
Expertise
- Represented owners and tenants facing total or partial expropriation for major infrastructure projects, such as the Réseau électrique métropolitain (REM), the extension of the Blue line of the Montréal metro system, the Pie-IX bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor, and the Québec City tramway.
- Represented property owners in a de facto expropriation matter following a modification to the applicable municipal by-law that changed the zoning of their previously developable land to “conservation.’’
- Represented before the courts property owners subject to restrictive urban by-laws prescribing the preservation in their natural states, in whole or in part, of woodlands, wetlands, etc., on their properties (de facto expropriation).
- Represented a multinational corporation specialized in rendering and transshipping animal by-products in obtaining the required permits (environmental, municipal, farmland protection) for various real estate projects, regarding compliance with applicable environmental and municipal regulations, as well as before the courts in matters including atmospheric emissions and wastewater management.
- Represented a municipality before the courts, including the Court of Appeal of Québec, in a class action regarding nuisances and neighborhood disturbances (noise, safety, etc.) resulting from automobile traffic on a collector street.
- Advised and represented a Recyc-Québec certified agency in court challenges, with respect to the compensation owed to municipalities in the context of the stewardship program for residual material, recycling and recovery of containers, packaging and print.
- Represented natural gas distribution and storage companies before the Régie de l’énergie du Québec in matters related to regulatory rates, pipeline network extension projects, applications for fixed rate returns, as well as energy efficiency and energy transition.
- Represented the purchaser of a shipyard and negotiated soil decontamination agreements with the government of Canada.
- Represented a Montréal university in a dispute regarding a project to alienate and transform for residential purposes a building located in the Historical and Natural Patrimonial Borough of Mont-Royal.
- Represented before the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal individuals challenging the constitutionality of municipal by-laws regulating the navigation and access of motorized watercraft to lakes and watercourses.
- Represented several owners, developers, and financial institutions in the acquisition and sale of contaminated sites.
- Represented owners and tenants facing total or partial expropriation for major infrastructure projects, such as the Réseau électrique métropolitain (REM), the extension of the Blue line of the Montréal metro system, the Pie-IX bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor, and the Québec City tramway.
- Represented property owners in a de facto expropriation matter following a modification to the applicable municipal by-law that changed the zoning of their previously developable land to “conservation.’’
- Represented before the courts property owners subject to restrictive urban by-laws prescribing the preservation in their natural states, in whole or in part, of woodlands, wetlands, etc., on their properties (de facto expropriation).
- Represented a multinational corporation specialized in rendering and transshipping animal by-products in obtaining the required permits (environmental, municipal, farmland protection) for various real estate projects, regarding compliance with applicable environmental and municipal regulations, as well as before the courts in matters including atmospheric emissions and wastewater management.
- Represented a municipality before the courts, including the Court of Appeal of Québec, in a class action regarding nuisances and neighborhood disturbances (noise, safety, etc.) resulting from automobile traffic on a collector street.
- Advised and represented a Recyc-Québec certified agency in court challenges, with respect to the compensation owed to municipalities in the context of the stewardship program for residual material, recycling and recovery of containers, packaging and print.
- Represented natural gas distribution and storage companies before the Régie de l’énergie du Québec in matters related to regulatory rates, pipeline network extension projects, applications for fixed rate returns, as well as energy efficiency and energy transition.
- Represented the purchaser of a shipyard and negotiated soil decontamination agreements with the government of Canada.
- Represented a Montréal university in a dispute regarding a project to alienate and transform for residential purposes a building located in the Historical and Natural Patrimonial Borough of Mont-Royal.
- Represented before the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal individuals challenging the constitutionality of municipal by-laws regulating the navigation and access of motorized watercraft to lakes and watercourses.
- Represented several owners, developers, and financial institutions in the acquisition and sale of contaminated sites.