Veronica Monteiro

Partner

Managing Partner, Edmonton Office

About

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

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