Lawyer Profile
Heidi Visser
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Heidi relies on a profound understanding of the principles of project finance to guide her clients through sophisticated P3 infrastructure transactions. Heidi draws on more than 30 years of experience, and the knowledge that comes from representing the full range of infrastructure market participants, to help her clients achieve their business goals. Heidi is recognized as a leading advisor on P3 projects.
Heidi is Co-Leader of the firm's Projects & Infrastructure Group and a member of the Corporate Group. She practises in the area of corporate and project finance with an emphasis on infrastructure public-private partnerships (P3). Heidi has extensive experience in all aspects of P3 projects, including commercial arrangements and financing requirements for complex projects, tender documentation, concession agreements, design-build agreements, operation and maintenance agreements and financing documents.
She has advised governments, equity sponsors, lenders and subcontractors on a wide variety of civil, transportation and accommodation P3 projects in Canada and internationally, including roads, mass transit, hospitals, schools and universities, waste water facilities, courthouses and prisons.
In addition to her P3 and project finance experience, Heidi has broad experience in a wide variety of corporate matters, including acquisitions, divestures, public and private offerings, corporate reorganizations, financing and security arrangements, and partnership and joint venture arrangements.
Heidi also advises on infrastructure and energy projects involving Indigenous participation, with a focus on project financing structures that support Indigenous equity ownership. Her work includes drafting and negotiating financing, security and ancillary documentation for complex projects involving Indigenous nations and project proponents.
Advised the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade on all aspects of its winning bid for Volkswagen’s first overseas gigafactory, a several-billion-dollar investment that is one of the largest in Canadian history.
Advising an Ontario regional government in connection with the procurement of a waste management processing system.
Advising a western-based municipally-owned corporation in connection with the procurement of a water treatment plant renewal project using an innovative design-build procurement model that has not previously been used in Canada.
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1990 (ON)