Marta is a partner in Osler’s Banking & Financial Services practice group. Marta regularly represents domestic and foreign lenders, equity sponsors and corporations in connection with complex debt financing transactions, with a focus on secured and unsecured financing, project finance, public private partnerships, acquisition financing, syndicated loans, cross-border transactions and debt offerings. Her industry experience includes infrastructure (healthcare, transportation, renewable energy), SaaS and technology. Marta’s clients appreciate her practical and business oriented approach to negotiations.
Representative Work
- iCON Infrastructure in its investment in QSL
- Mobilinx Hurontario General Partnership as a successful proponent for the $4.6 billion Hurontario LRT project
- First Quality Enterprises LLC First Quality Enterprises in its acquisition of Domtar’s Pulp and Paper Mill in Dryden, Ontario
- EllisDon Capital Inc. and EllisDon Infrastructure Healthcare EllisDon Capital Inc. in its $260 million DBFM contract
- Chorus Aviation Inc. Chorus Aviation in its $75 million bought deal offering of 5.75% Senior Unsecured Debentures
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- Verafin Verafin in its $515 million venture funding – the largest venture funding deal in Canada’s history
- Counsel to the equity sponsors in connection with a project involving a new correctional complex in Thunder Bay, Ontario
- Counsel to the equity sponsors in connection with an approximately $3.6 billion project involving a new hospital in Niagara Falls, Ontario
- Counsel to the successful proponent in their bid on the approximately $371 million project involving a new children’s treatment center at Ottawa’s Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).
- Counsel to the successful proponent in their bid on the approximately $1.3 billion project involving a new patient tower and other renovations to the Queensway Health Centre in Etobicoke, Ontario
- Counsel to the lenders in the $5 billion acquisition of WestJet Airlines Ltd. by Onex Corp.
- Counsel to Canada Infrastructure Bank in its $970 million loan to Ontario Power Generation in connection with the development of Ontario’s first on-grid small modular reactor technology.
- Counsel to the equity sponsors on the development of the Province of Ontario’s progressive public private partnership delivery model and the procurement of the M-Site progressive-DBFM project
- Inkbox Inkbox in its financing of $17 million
- Drop Drop in its US$21 million Series A financing
- Mitel Networks Corporation Mitel Networks Corporation in connection with its acquisition of ShoreTel, Inc. for US$530 million
- Professor Raquel Urtasun Professor Raquel Urtasun in her hiring by Uber to lead a new Toronto-based research and development centre for its Advanced Technologies Group
- The Senior Creditors to Connect 6ix General Partnership in connection with the $9 Billion Ontario Line Rolling Stock, Systems, Operations and Maintenance Project procured by Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx. The Senior Creditor Group represented by Osler included: (i) TD Securities Inc. and National Bank Financial Inc., in connection with an underwritten private placement of senior bonds issued by Connect 6ix; (ii) ATB Financial Inc., DZ Bank AG, Korea Development Bank, National Bank of Canada, The Norinchukin Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in connection with a revolving credit facility and associated hedging arrangements and (iii) Japan Bank for International Cooperation in connection with a term loan facility
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- Chorus Aviation Inc. Chorus Aviation in its $75 million bought deal offering of 5.75% Senior Unsecured Debentures
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- Verafin Verafin in its $515 million venture funding – the largest venture funding deal in Canada’s history
- Counsel to the equity sponsors in connection with a project involving a new correctional complex in Thunder Bay, Ontario
- Counsel to the equity sponsors in connection with an approximately $3.6 billion project involving a new hospital in Niagara Falls, Ontario
- Counsel to the successful proponent in their bid on the approximately $371 million project involving a new children’s treatment center at Ottawa’s Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO).
- Counsel to the successful proponent in their bid on the approximately $1.3 billion project involving a new patient tower and other renovations to the Queensway Health Centre in Etobicoke, Ontario
- Counsel to the lenders in the $5 billion acquisition of WestJet Airlines Ltd. by Onex Corp.
- Counsel to Canada Infrastructure Bank in its $970 million loan to Ontario Power Generation in connection with the development of Ontario’s first on-grid small modular reactor technology.
- Counsel to the equity sponsors on the development of the Province of Ontario’s progressive public private partnership delivery model and the procurement of the M-Site progressive-DBFM project
- Inkbox Inkbox in its financing of $17 million
- Drop Drop in its US$21 million Series A financing
- Mitel Networks Corporation Mitel Networks Corporation in connection with its acquisition of ShoreTel, Inc. for US$530 million
- Professor Raquel Urtasun Professor Raquel Urtasun in her hiring by Uber to lead a new Toronto-based research and development centre for its Advanced Technologies Group
- The Senior Creditors to Connect 6ix General Partnership in connection with the $9 Billion Ontario Line Rolling Stock, Systems, Operations and Maintenance Project procured by Infrastructure Ontario and Metrolinx. The Senior Creditor Group represented by Osler included: (i) TD Securities Inc. and National Bank Financial Inc., in connection with an underwritten private placement of senior bonds issued by Connect 6ix; (ii) ATB Financial Inc., DZ Bank AG, Korea Development Bank, National Bank of Canada, The Norinchukin Bank and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in connection with a revolving credit facility and associated hedging arrangements and (iii) Japan Bank for International Cooperation in connection with a term loan facility
Awards and Recognition
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Chambers Canada: Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business: Recognized in Projects: PPP & Infrastructure
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Best Lawyers: Recognized as “One to Watch” in Banking and Finance Law
Media Mentions
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Osler News February 16, 2023
Osler welcomes 10 new partners and two new counsel in 2023
Osler is proud to announce the addition of 10 new partners and two new counsel across four of our offices, effective March 1, 2023.
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Speaking and Writing
Speaking Engagements
How to Use Venture Debt with RBCx
Moderator, November 22, 2023
Extending Your Startup’s Runway: Venture Debt 101
Speaker, November 20, 2017
Credentials
Education
- University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, JD
- University of Western Ontario, HBA (with Distinction)
Languages
- English
Professional Affiliations
- Law Society of Ontario
- Canadian Bar Association
- Ontario Bar Association
