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Susan Rosen is a partner in Gowlings' Toronto office and a member of both the Financial Services and Real Estate and Urban Development Practice Groups. Susan specializes in a broad range of syndicated lending, banking, restructuring and enforcement, real estate, commercial leasing and environmental law related areas.
Susan's practice involves secured financings, commercial acquisition, disposition and financing transactions, commercial and retail leasing, and environmental law related issues. In her practice, Susan acts on behalf of individuals, small and multinational corporations, REITs, financial institutions, credit unions, insurance companies and foreign investors as well as some of Canada's largest and most well-known developers, property and asset managers and retail chains. Susan's practice also specifically includes financing wind farms across Ontario.
Prior to joining Gowlings, Susan spent two years as in-house counsel to one of the largest integrated petroleum companies in Canada where she completed a variety of real estate and corporate commercial transactions. While there, Susan expanded her real estate knowledge and developed her experience in environmental law. She joined the Banking and Real Estate Group at Gowlings in the summer of 1993.
Susan has been an active member of the organizing committee for the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Canadian Law Conference for several years and chairs a panel discussion each year. Susan's most recent panel for the ICSC Canadian Law Conference was titled "Operating Costs for Dummies (and Smart People Too) - What Should Stay In and What You Can Try to Negotiate Out," for which Susan wrote a paper. She has lectured on numerous occasions to the Ontario Bar Association's Real Property Section, the Law Society of Upper Canada - Six-Minute Lawyer Leasing Series, the Professional Credit Granting (PCG) School and the ICSC Canadian Law Conferences, and she has written a number of papers in connection with those presentations and speeches. Susan regularly delivers lectures to clients and members of the Firm on real estate, lending, leasing and environmental law issues. She also contributed to the Toxic Real Estate chapter in the Business Guide to Environmental Law. Susan has been quoted in a variety of articles appearing in The Globe and Mail and the Canadian Lawyer. |
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