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Heidi
Visser

Partner
  • hvisser@airdberlis.com
  • 416.865.4141
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Admitted to the Ontario Bar: 1990
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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. 

Expertise

  • Healthcare
  • Banking & Finance
  • Projects & Infrastructure
  • Financial Services
  • Corporate
  • Construction
  • Indigenous

Representative Matters

Representative Matter

Aird & Berlis Acts for the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development in its Winning Bid for Volkswagen Gigafactory

The Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade successfully bid for Volkswagen’s first overseas gigafactory, which will be built in St. Thomas.

May 16, 2023

Representative Matter

Valley Line West Light Rail Transit Project Reaches Financial Close

The City of Edmonton and Marigold Infrastructure Partners reached financial close on the Valley Line West Light Rail Transit project on December 23, 2020.

December 28, 2020

Representative Matter

Highway 104 Twinning Project Reaches Financial Close

The Government of Nova Scotia and Dexter Nova Alliance reached financial close on the Highway 104 Twinning Project on May 6, 2020. The project includes $364 million for construction and structures, and $196 million for maintenance, rehabilitation and financing, with a total contract amount of approximately $718 million.

May 13, 2020

Representative Matter

Highway 427 Expansion Project Reaches Financial Close

Infrastructure Ontario, Grupo ACS and Miller Construction reached financial close on the Highway 427 Expansion Project. The project has a capital cost of $363 million and is being financed through a bank-bond hybrid.

March 21, 2017

Representative Matter

Province of Saskatchewan Closes Joint-Use Schools Projects

On August 20, 2015, the Province of Saskatchewan reached financial close on two bundled Joint-Use Elementary Schools Projects, collectively, the province’s largest school construction projects to date.

August 25, 2015

Representative Matter

Province of Saskatchewan Closes Regina Bypass Project

On August 4, 2015, the Province of Saskatchewan (Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure) reached financial close on the $1.88 billion Regina Bypass Project, Saskatchewan’s largest infrastructure mandate to date.

August 05, 2015

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Professional Involvement

Memberships

  • Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships
  • Construction Lawyers Society of America (Fellow)

Heidi is a regular participant in conferences on project finance and infrastructure. Heidi has co-chaired workshops on P3 issues and presented at Insight and Lexpert conferences on P3 and infrastructure issues.

Heidi has taught the P3 segment of a senior-level project finance seminar at an Ontario law school.

Co-Authored the Canadian chapter in “The Public-Private Partnership Law Review – Edition 2,” Law Business Research Ltd., March 2016.

Co-Authored an article titled "The Standardisation of Public-Private Partnership Documentation in Canada," Financier Worldwide, July 2009.

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Aird & Berlis Lawyers Named in Lexpert Special Edition: Infrastructure 2020

September 03, 2020

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Aird & Berlis Recognized in Chambers Canada 2019

September 21, 2018

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A&B Recognized in The Legal 500 Canada 2018

November 10, 2017

Education

  • Silver Medallist, Ontario Bar Admission Course, 1990
  • LLB, University of Toronto, 1988
  • BA, York University, 1980
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