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Venessa Fedun

Associate
About

Venessa Fedun maintains a broad corporate commercial practice, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate, corporate reorganizations, and secured lending. She is also a trusted estate planning advisor, regularly providing personal and business succession planning advice.

Venessa has extensive transactional experience, having advised a diverse range of domestic and international clients on share and asset acquisitions and divestitures, secured lending, and financing arrangements. She is experienced in drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts, including shareholder agreements, land development agreements, service agreements, and leases, together with all aspects of corporate governance and tax-planned reorganizations. Venessa represents clients across a variety of industries, including construction, transportation, energy, manufacturing, retail, real estate development, and professional services.

Venessa assists business owners and high net worth clients in developing tailored estate plans, including wills, powers of attorney, personal directives, and trusts.

Bar admissionsAlberta, 2017Saskatchewan, 2019
Languages
  • English

Awards

  • Ones to Watch, Best Lawyers in Canada (Construction), (2025, 2027)
  • Ones to Watch, Best Lawyers in Canada (Corporate and Commercial Litigation), (2025, 2027)
  • University of Alberta Dean’s List
Education
  • J.D. (with distinction) University of Alberta, 2016

  • B.A. (Criminology, with distinction), University of Alberta, 2011

Publications

  • Co-author, “A Requiem for the Presumption of Prudence after OPG and ATCO”, Energy Regulation Quarterly 4(4), November 2016

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

  • Volunteer, Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Member, Law Society of Alberta
  • Member, Law Society of Saskatchewan
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association