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Practice Expertise
- Commercial Law
- Corporate Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mining
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Law
- Corporate Finance
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Mining
- Securities 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
- Mining
- Securities
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
Professional Activities
*Private Capital Markets Association of Canada, Member
*Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, Member
*Canadian Bar Association, Securities Law Section, 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
Professional Activities
*Private Capital Markets Association of Canada, Member
*Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, Member
*Canadian Bar Association, Securities Law Section, Member
Articles
Phase 1 of Canadian Securities Administrators' Client Focused Reforms Coming into Effect June 30, 2021
By Angela Austman, Alaina Zecchini |May 2021
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