Niki represents clients in a wide range of corporate transactions, with a focus on complex mergers and acquisitions. Niki’s transaction experience covers a variety of industries, including defense and security, hospitality, manufacturing, mining and technology.

Prior to joining Akin, Niki was an attorney at a leading law firm in Toronto, Canada, where she advised clients on domestic and cross-border corporate transactions. She also completed a secondment at Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts.

Niki earned her J.D. from the University of Toronto, where she served as an editor on the Law Review, and her M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, where she was a member of the Cambridge Union. She also received a certificate in transnational legal studies from the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London, England.

Representative Work

Corporate Finance

Issuers and underwriters in connection with numerous initial public offerings and follow-on equity and debt offerings on the Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange.

Mergers and Acquisitions

Newmont Corporation in its $10 billion acquisition of Goldcorp.
Onex Group in its $5 billion (Canadian) acquisition of WestJet Airlines.

Wind Point Partners and its portfolio company, Voyant Beauty, in its acquisition of the personal care business of KIK Custom Products.
Cineplex in connection with the proposed $2.8 billion (Canadian) acquisition of Cineplex by Cineworld Group.
Algoma Steel Group in its combination with Legato Merger Corp., a Nasdaq-listed SPAC.
Brinkmere Capital Partners in its acquisition of a hydraulic fluid power systems manufacturer.
Trinity Industries in its acquisition of Holden America.
Armada Materials in its acquisition of Volunteer Materials.
Armada Materials in its acquisition of Wright Paving and Custom Stone.
Stonebridge Companies in its acquisition of Real Hospitality Group.
Princeton Equity Group in its sale of International Franchise Professionals Group to CNL Strategic Capital, an investment vehicle sub-managed by Levine Leichtman Capital Partners.
Stream Data Centers and Stream Realty Partners in the proposed majority stake sale of Stream Data Centers to Apollo Funds.