Mary Martin, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Office of the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Mary Martin is Metrolinx’s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. Prior to joining Metrolinx, Mary was senior counsel at
the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Renewal. Drawing on her 20 years as a corporate commercial lawyer in the private sector, including 14 years as a partner in the national law firm, Gowlings, Mary acted as lead
provincial counsel on complex, high-profile commercial transactions. Her responsibilities included
provincial legal oversight of a transaction generating over $.5 Billion of net proceeds for the
province. Her role also involved several provincial/agency matters relating to two key Ontario agencies and included
Alternative Financing and Procurement work. Combining her private and public sector background, Mary brings to Metrolinx a range of corporate governance, information technology, financing and other transactional experiences. Mary is a graduate of the University of Toronto law school and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1982.