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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.
Languages
English
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
* Represented a consortium of 12 Canadian private sector pension plans in a $1.4 billion investment in a combination of Northleaf's Private Credit Fund and concurrent secondary market purchase of a 16% interest in Antares Holdings, a US middle market lender.
* Represented a consortium of Canadian private sector pension plans in a $175 million secondary market purchase of a portfolio of P3 infrastructure contracts.
* Represented an alternative investment fund manager in the $150 million restructuring of its family of funds.
* Represented Western Canadian real estate developer in formation of $100 million evergreen real estate fund and related offering memorandum.
* Advising numerous mortgage investment corporations on formation, structuring, capital raising, securities registration and ongoing compliance.
* Advising on formation, organization, capital raising and ongoing operations of reporting mutual funds and non-reporting alternative investment funds.
* Advising dealers, advisers, and investment fund managers with respect to registration and on-going securities regulatory and compliance matters.
Additional Information
Rankings & Recognition
* Best Lawyers in Canada 2024-2027: Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
* Best Lawyers in Canada 2022-2027: Private Funds Law
* Best Lawyers in Canada 2022-2027: Securities Law
* Lexology Index Canada 2025: Private Funds
* 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)
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
* Represented a consortium of 12 Canadian private sector pension plans in a $1.4 billion investment in a combination of Northleaf's Private Credit Fund and concurrent secondary market purchase of a 16% interest in Antares Holdings, a US middle market lender.
* Represented a consortium of Canadian private sector pension plans in a $175 million secondary market purchase of a portfolio of P3 infrastructure contracts.
* Represented an alternative investment fund manager in the $150 million restructuring of its family of funds.
* Represented Western Canadian real estate developer in formation of $100 million evergreen real estate fund and related offering memorandum.
* Advising numerous mortgage investment corporations on formation, structuring, capital raising, securities registration and ongoing compliance.
* Advising on formation, organization, capital raising and ongoing operations of reporting mutual funds and non-reporting alternative investment funds.
* Advising dealers, advisers, and investment fund managers with respect to registration and on-going securities regulatory and compliance matters.
Additional Information
Rankings & Recognition
* Best Lawyers in Canada 2024-2027: Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
* Best Lawyers in Canada 2022-2027: Private Funds Law
* Best Lawyers in Canada 2022-2027: Securities Law
* Lexology Index Canada 2025: Private Funds
* 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)
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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Pensions and Employee Benefits Law Blog
Lawson Lundell's Pension and Employee Benefits Law Blog provides updates on the most recent legal developments impacting pension and employee benefit plans. We cover a range of topics, including recent case law and changes to relevant provincial and federal legislation.
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This blog is authored by members of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. We intend to follow new and interesting issues emerging in the legal and business communities. The wide range of experience among the members of our litigation group will provide a diverse and insightful examination of current legal trends and topics. Our goal is to provide a source of valuable information and insight on a wide variety of matters for our readers.
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