Meghan E. Popp

Meghan is an associate in our Banking and Debt Financing group. Her practice focuses on corporate and commercial transactions involving both banks and private lenders. Her experience includes commercial debt financing, acquisition financing, asset-based lending, and project financing.

She was previously a member of the firm's Pension and Employee Benefits Group where she advised boards of trustees and other sponsors of pension and employee benefit plans in respect of the interpretation and amendment of plan texts and trust agreements and other legal and regulatory issues affecting their plans.

Meghan started with Lawson Lundell as a summer student in 2008 and joined the firm as an associate following the completion of her articles in 2010.

Recognition and Ranking

• During law school Meghan was the recipient of a number of academic awards, including the McCarthy Tetrault Diane Mason Memorial Prize in Contract Law, McCarthy Tetrault Prize in Torts, Leslie E Harowitz Memorial Prize and multiple Law Foundation Awards

Professional Activities

• Canadian Bar Association, Member
• Canadian Bar Association Young Lawyers Section, Member
• Vancouver Bar Association, Member
• Law Society of British Columbia, Member
• Canadian Pension & Benefits Institute, Member

Bar Admissions

• British Columbia (2010)

Education

• University of Victoria (B.A., 2003)
• University of British Columbia (J.D., 2009)

Meghan has worked on transactions involving:

• One of North America’s leading producers of mechanical printing papers, in connection with the extension and amendment of a $330 million asset based loan facility to a $175 million facility
• A TSX-listed uranium production company, in connection with the $260 million acquisition of the uranium assets in the Central Labrador Mineral Belt of Eastern Canada
• A Canadian bank, in connection with the $22.5 million financing of 17-storey residential development in Vancouver