The Canadian Property Tax Association president brings experience in infrastructure development
Litigator Adina Georgescu has joined Borden Ladner Gervais LLP as a partner in its environmental, municipal, expropriation and regulatory group in Montréal.
She brings almost two decades of experience assisting clients on matters related to land use planning, infrastructure development, and regulatory compliance. She has litigated expropriation, property tax, and energy matters.
Georgescu’s clients have included developers, landowners, and corporations in the commercial, industrial, and renewable energy sectors. She has tackled issues involving public authorities, such as environmental compliance, permitting, zoning, energy rate approvals, and property assessments.
She has navigated public sector and regulatory frameworks such as access to information, lobbying, and legislative drafting. Recently, she acted for owners and tenants facing total or partial expropriation for major infrastructure projects like the the Réseau électrique métropolitain, the extension of the Blue line of the Montréal metro system, the Pie-IX bus rapid transit (BRT) corridor, and the Québec City tramway.
Georgescu also represented property owners in a de facto expropriation matter involving a change to the applicable municipal by-law that altered the zoning of previously developable land. Moreover, she acted for property owners under urban by-laws prescribing the preservation in their natural states, in whole or in part, of woodlands, wetlands, etc., on their properties.
“Adina is a gifted litigator with extensive, on-the-ground experience in navigating environmental challenges in large-scale projects. Her superior ability to guide a wide range of stakeholders through fast-evolving requirements in land use planning and commercial real estate will be invaluable to our clients,” said Graham Walker, national group head of specialized disputes at BLG, in a statement.
Georgescu is the current Canadian Property Tax Association president and chairs the Urban Development Institute of Québec’s legal committee. She is also an administrative law instructor at the University of Montréal’s Faculty of Law and Faculty of Continuing Education.
