Bio

Heather Douglas is a partner at WeirFoulds with extensive experience dealing with complex and sophisticated financial transactions involving municipalities (in Ontario and other provinces), provincial and territorial government bodies, Crown corporations and school boards. Clients turn to Heather for sound guidance and advice, including a focus on risk management, and assistance in all manner of matters and issues specific to financial transactions concerning municipalities, school boards and financial institutions. Heather works together with our multi-disciplinary team with expertise in municipal matters, banking, finance, planning & land use, procurement, corporate, education, and information technology to ensure that her clients have access to all of the services required to make a project successful. Heather has acted on many innovative municipal transactions including the first Canadian municipal green debenture issuance, the first Ontario municipal promissory note program and the first Ontario not-for-profit multi-municipality investment pools program under prudent investor regime. Heather is actively engaged in the legal profession and matters that benefit the larger community. She has spoken at numerous programs, seminars and conferences on public sector financing issues, and is a member of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs’ Debt Issuance and Investment Policy Committee.