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Practice Expertise
- Commercial Law
- Corporate Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Securities
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Law
- Corporate Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Securities
- Mining View More
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Profile
Angela leads the firm's Fund Investments & Asset Management Group and has more than two decades of experience advising Canadian asset managers and institutional investors on fund structuring, formation, and investment activities across all asset classes, both domestically and internationally.
Within her fund investments practice, Angela diligences and negotiates separately managed account agreements, pooled fund investments, secondary acquisitions, co-investments and direct investments on behalf of a diverse range of institutional investors. She is a trusted advisor to public and private sector pension plans, benefit plans, university and indigenous endowment funds, family offices and charitable foundations situated throughout Canada.
Angela's corporate finance and securities practice involves assisting clients with the formation, management and operation of mutual funds, alternative funds, mortgage investment corporations and other investment vehicles, and the offering of their securities in public offerings and private placement transactions. She also routinely assists clients in obtaining investment fund manager, portfolio manager and exempt market dealer registration and advises registrants on a wide range of securities registration matters, including exemption applications, regulatory compliance examinations and compliance policies and procedures.
Within her fund investments practice, Angela diligences and negotiates separately managed account agreements, pooled fund investments, secondary acquisitions, co-investments and direct investments on behalf of a diverse range of institutional investors. She is a trusted advisor to public and private sector pension plans, benefit plans, university and indigenous endowment funds, family offices and charitable foundations situated throughout Canada.
Angela's corporate finance and securities practice involves assisting clients with the formation, management and operation of mutual funds, alternative funds, mortgage investment corporations and other investment vehicles, and the offering of their securities in public offerings and private placement transactions. She also routinely assists clients in obtaining investment fund manager, portfolio manager and exempt market dealer registration and advises registrants on a wide range of securities registration matters, including exemption applications, regulatory compliance examinations and compliance policies and procedures.
Bar Admissions
British Columbia (2002)
Education
University of British Columbia, LL.B. (2001)
Simon Fraser University, B.A. (1999)
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Law
- Corporate Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Securities
- Mining
Professional Career
Significant Accomplishments
Selected experience includes:
Represented Bernie Rokstad and Aaron Rokstad in connection with Carillion plc's acquisition of a 60% interest in Rokstad Power Corporation.
Represented Silver Predator Corp. in connection with its acquisition of Springer Mining Company, owner of the Springer Tungsten Mine and Mill in Nevada, from Americas Bullion Royalty Corp.
Represented Golden Predator Mining Corp. in connection with its acquisition of Redtail Metals Corp. pursuant to a statutory plan of arrangement and its concurrent acquisition of a 100% interest in the Brewery Creek Project, a past producing heap leach gold mining operation located in the Yukon.
Advising on formation, organization and ongoing operations of retail mutual funds, hedge funds, pooled funds and other investment funds.
Advising dealers, advisers, and investment fund managers with respect to registration and on-going securities regulatory and compliance matters.
Professional Associations
Recognition and Ranking
* Lexology Index Canada 2025: Private Funds
* Best Lawyers in Canada 2024-2026: Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
* Best Lawyers in Canada 2022-2026: Private Funds Law and Securities Law
* Lexology 2024-2025: Client Choice Award Winner, Private Funds - Canada
* Acritas Stars 2019-2021
* Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2020: Repeatedly recommended as a Leading Practitioner for Investment Funds & Asset Management (Non-Tax)
* BC Business Magazine 2019: Named as one of 'BC's Most Influential Women in Finance'
Professional Activities and Experience
* International Bar Association, Member
* AWF Association of Women in Finance, Member
* ACG British Columbia, Director and Corporate Secretary (2018-2020); Chair, Dealmakers of the Year Awards, Organizing Committee (2017-2020)
* Lithoquest Diamonds Inc. (TSXV:LDI), Director (2017-2020)
* Business Transitions Forum 2018, Advisory Committee
* Arts Umbrella Invitational to Benefit The Children's Arts Umbrella Foundation, Co-Chair (2016-2017)
* AWF Association of Women in Finance, Director and Secretary (2004-2006)
* Canadian Women in Private Equity & Venture Capital, Vancouver (CWPE), Member
* International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, Member
* Canadian Pension Benefits Institute, Member
Selected experience includes:
Represented Bernie Rokstad and Aaron Rokstad in connection with Carillion plc's acquisition of a 60% interest in Rokstad Power Corporation.
Represented Silver Predator Corp. in connection with its acquisition of Springer Mining Company, owner of the Springer Tungsten Mine and Mill in Nevada, from Americas Bullion Royalty Corp.
Represented Golden Predator Mining Corp. in connection with its acquisition of Redtail Metals Corp. pursuant to a statutory plan of arrangement and its concurrent acquisition of a 100% interest in the Brewery Creek Project, a past producing heap leach gold mining operation located in the Yukon.
Advising on formation, organization and ongoing operations of retail mutual funds, hedge funds, pooled funds and other investment funds.
Advising dealers, advisers, and investment fund managers with respect to registration and on-going securities regulatory and compliance matters.
Professional Associations
Recognition and Ranking
* Lexology Index Canada 2025: Private Funds
* Best Lawyers in Canada 2024-2026: Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
* Best Lawyers in Canada 2022-2026: Private Funds Law and Securities Law
* Lexology 2024-2025: Client Choice Award Winner, Private Funds - Canada
* Acritas Stars 2019-2021
* Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2020: Repeatedly recommended as a Leading Practitioner for Investment Funds & Asset Management (Non-Tax)
* BC Business Magazine 2019: Named as one of 'BC's Most Influential Women in Finance'
Professional Activities and Experience
* International Bar Association, Member
* AWF Association of Women in Finance, Member
* ACG British Columbia, Director and Corporate Secretary (2018-2020); Chair, Dealmakers of the Year Awards, Organizing Committee (2017-2020)
* Lithoquest Diamonds Inc. (TSXV:LDI), Director (2017-2020)
* Business Transitions Forum 2018, Advisory Committee
* Arts Umbrella Invitational to Benefit The Children's Arts Umbrella Foundation, Co-Chair (2016-2017)
* AWF Association of Women in Finance, Director and Secretary (2004-2006)
* Canadian Women in Private Equity & Venture Capital, Vancouver (CWPE), Member
* International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, Member
* Canadian Pension Benefits Institute, Member
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