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Faithe Holder is a partner practising in the Real Estate, Environmental and Urban Development Group in Gowlings’ Toronto office.
Faithe focuses her practice primarily on infrastructure/public-private partnership and commercial real estate law with expertise in the acquisition, financing and disposition of commercial properties and drafting, negotiating and reviewing a variety of agreements including public-private partnership agreements, agreements of purchase and sale, service agreements, tenders and requests for proposals. Faithe is also developing an expertise in construction law.
Faithe acts for a wide range of companies in the infrastructure, real property and construction sectors including owners, contractors, developers, borrowers, property managers, facility managers and governmental entities.
In addition to her practice at Gowlings, Faithe also enjoyed a tenure as legal counsel with the crown corporation which manages one of Canada’s largest real estate portfolios on behalf of the government of Ontario. As a key member of the corporation’s legal services department, Faithe advised on corporate, commercial, real estate, construction, public procurement, public policy and complex litigation matters. Faithe’s recent infrastructure/P3 law experience includes:
- Advising Infrastructure Ontario and the Province of Ontario, as part of a multi-firm legal team, in structuring and implementing Ontario's procurement process to select the vendor and nuclear technology for Ontario's new-build nuclear project.
- Reviewing RFP documentation and acting for the consortium in drafting and negotiating a series of agreements between the members of the consortium in preparation for submission of the consortium’s bid in respect of the City of Toronto Source Separated Organic Material Processing Facility Project.
- Reviewing and negotiating, on behalf of a member of the successful consortium, the project, subcontract and interface agreements for the Durham Courthouse, Orleans Art Centre, Niagara Hospital, Bridgepoint Hospital, Toronto South Detention Centre, McGill University Health Centre, Thunder Bay Consolidated Courthouse and Long Beach Court Building P3 Projects.
- Reviewing and negotiating the project, subcontract and interface agreements, on behalf of a consortium member, in respect of Royal Jubilee Hospital, Kelowna Hospital, Surrey Hospital, Alberta Schools I, Moncton Courthouse, Waterloo Courthouse, Moncton Schools, Saint John Courthouse, OPP Modernization, St. Joseph’s Hamilton and St. Joseph’s London P3 Projects.
- Acting on behalf of a consortium member, in respect of Restigouche Hospital Centre, Surrey Pretrial Services Centre, Sheppard Maintenance and Storage Facility, Humber River Regional Hospital, Quinte Consolidated Courthouse and St. Thomas Consolidated Courthouse P3 Projects.
- Acting on behalf of the successful consortium in respect of the South West Detention Centre P3 Project.
A selective description of Faithe’s recent real estate experience includes:
- Acting for a real estate limited partnership in the acquisition, financing and ultimate disposition of more than $700 million of apartment complexes and seniors’ homes throughout Canada consisting of 7,600 units.
- Acting for an Ontario crown corporation with respect to acquisition and dispositions of crown property.
- Acting for a European pension fund with respect to acquisitions and dispositions of commercial office property in downtown Toronto.
- Acting for the Purchaser in the acquisition of farm property in Ontario.
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