Lawyer Profile
Angela D. Austman
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
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.
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2002 (BC); 2016 (NT); 2016 (NU); 2016 (YT)
Professional Details
Education
University of British Columbia, LL.B., 2001 Simon Fraser University, BA.Sc., 1999; Bar admissions: Called to the Northwest Territories Bar, 2016 Called to the Nunavut Bar, 2016 Called to the Yukon Bar, 2016 Called to the British Columbia Bar, 2002
Associations
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
Awards & Recognition
Lexology Index Canada Private Funds Angela D. Austman 2025 Best Lawyers in Canada Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law Angela D. Austman 2024-2026 Best Lawyers in Canada Private Funds Law and Securities Law Angela D. Austman 2022-2026 Lexology Client Choice Award Winner, Private Funds - Canada Angela D. Austman 2024-2025 Acritas Stars Angela D. Austman 2019-2021 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory Repeatedly recommended as a Leading Practitioner for Investment Funds & Asset Management (Non-Tax) Angela D. Austman 2020 BC Business Magazine Named as one of 'BC's Most Influential Women in Finance' Angela D. Austman 2019
Articles & Speeches
Angela Austman Recognized as a Highly Recommended 2026 Lexology Client Choice Award Winner December 2025 Rankings & Recognitions Lexology Index Canada Recognizes 20 Lawson Lundell Lawyers Across Multiple Practice Areas November 2025 Rankings & Recognitions 85 Lawson Lundell Lawyers Recognised Across 37 Practice Areas in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2026 September 2025 Rankings & Recognitions
Selected Decisions
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.