Veronica Monteiro

Partner

Managing Partner, Edmonton Office

Emailveronica.monteiro@ca.dlapiper.com

About

Areas of FocusFinancial Services Corporate Finance Mergers and Acquisitions Real Estate Infrastructure, Construction and Transport Employment

Bar admissionsAlberta, 2010Northwest Territories, 2020Saskatchewan, 2013

EXPERIENCE

Acted for a multi-employer pension plan with respect to its investment of $10,000,000 USD in Brookfield ‎Panther ‎Co-Invest Non-US LP. ‎
Acted for a multi-employer pension plan with respect to its investment of approximately $10,000,000 USD ‎in GCM ‎Grosvenor Labor Impact Feeder Fund, a Delaware Limited Partnership. The investment was made ‎by the ‎Pension Fund becoming a limited partner of the Feeder Fund. The Feeder Fund’s purpose is to ‎facilitate ‎investments in a Master Partnership by certain non-US persons and US tax exempt investors. ‎
Acted for a large pension plan with respect to an investment in the HarbourVest Canada Growth Fund L.P, ‎a limited ‎partnership and venture capital program with a specific focus on the Canadian venture ‎market. The amount of ‎commitments from investors was in excess of $200,000,000.‎
Acted for a large Alberta pension plan with respect to an investment in the amount of $50,000,000 in a ‎Canadian ‎real estate fund focusing on a diversified Canadian real estate portfolio.‎
Acted for a large pension plan with respect to an investment in the amount of $30,000,000 in a Canadian ‎Fund ‎‎(structured as a Limited Partnership) with a focus on pursuing equity and equity-like investments in ‎‎infrastructure assets in member countries of the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and ‎Development.‎
Acted for the sponsor and administrator of a defined benefit/defined contribution Ontario pension plan ‎with respect ‎to pension and tax issues relating to repatriation of employees to a large energy corporation. ‎‎
Acted for the sponsor and administrator of a single employer defined benefit/defined contribution plan in ‎the ‎insurance sector with respect to establishing investment related governance documents and ‎presenting to the ‎pension advisory committee on fiduciary responsibilities in the context of investments.‎
Acted for a US-based foreign plan and frozen plan with respect to its proposed $55,000,000 investment ‎in a global ‎equities mutual fund.‎
Act for several single-employer and multi-employer pension plans in drafting and updating their statement ‎of ‎investment policies and procedures on a regular basis.
Advising pension plan clients with respect to ESG considerations in the context of investments.
Act for a number of Canadian Chartered Banks and large, Alberta-based, commercial lenders.‎
Acted in the restructuring of the Canadian subsidiaries of a large, US-based publicly traded company.‎
Acted as Canadian counsel for a US based private lender on a $85,000,000 USD senior credit facility.‎
Acted for a Canadian chartered bank on a $50,000,000 credit facility in the automotive industry.‎
Acted for a major Canadian bulk transportation company with respect to several acquisitions of mid-sized ‎trucking businesses.‎
Acted for the purchaser of assets relating to an airport hangar.‎
Acted for a Canadian subsidiary of a large international public corporation specializing in technology ‎services with respect to the multi-million dollar acquisition of a Canadian business.‎
Acted for a European public corporation with respect to establishing a Canadian subsidiary and with ‎respect to the purchase of a Canadian corporation providing transportation and logistics services in ‎Canada.‎
Acted for a large Alberta pension plan with respect to an investment in the HarbourVest Canada Growth ‎Fund L.P, a limited partnership and venture capital program with a specific focus on the Canadian venture ‎market. The amount of commitments from investors was in excess of $200,000,000.‎
Acted for a large Alberta pension plan with respect to an investment in the amount of $50,000,000 in a ‎Canadian real estate fund focusing on a diversified Canadian real estate portfolio.‎
Acted for a large Alberta pension plan with respect to an investment in the amount of $30,000,000 in a ‎Canadian Fund (structured as a Limited Partnership) with a focus on pursuing equity and equity-like ‎investments in infrastructure assets in member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation ‎and Development.‎
Acted for Sprott Resource Lending Partnership in a non-revolving secured $140 million credit facility to ‎Altius Minerals Corp. to fund its acquisition of coal and potash royalties from Prairie Mines & Royalty Ltd.‎
Acted for Capital City Link General Partnership on the Northeast Anthony Henday Drive Project, a Public-‎Private Partnership (PPP) with the government of Alberta, to design, build, finance and operate the ‎northeast leg of the Edmonton Ring Road.‎

Languages

Education

LL.B., University of Alberta, 2009

B.Sc., (with distinction), University of Alberta, 2006

Awards

Chambers Canada (Pensions and Benefits), 2018-2019
The Legal 500 Canada (Pensions), 2018-2019, 2021
Lexpert Rising ‎Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40, 2021 ‎
Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Pensions), 2022 (Lawyers to Watch); (Pensions - Employer), 2023-2024

Publications

Legal opinions and when to use them, 20 December 2021‎
Business names, what are the requirements?‎, 18 January 2021‎
Out with the old & in with the “new” - draft legislative proposals & employee life and health ‎trusts, 3 ‎December 2020‎

Memberships And Affiliations

Past Chair, Canadian Bar Association Pension and Benefits ‎
Past Co-chair, Canadian Bar Association Pension and Benefits Alberta (North) Section
Member, Law Society of Alberta
Member, Canadian Bar Association‎