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Nafeesa Valli-Hasham

Partner
Nafeesa has advised our public company for several years. She knows the law, strategy, how to handle the personalities involved, and how to achieve positive results. She handles her work ethically, efficiently and with great ease. I highly recommend Nafeesa.
— Client feedback
Vancouver
About

With an entrepreneurial spirit and vast network of business connections, Nafeesa helps clients reach new pinnacles of commercial growth. She works to understand the goals of businesses and their stakeholders to create legal strategies leading to lucrative outcomes.

Nafeesa has helped numerous clients get listed on Canadian stock exchanges and execute on initial public offerings, reverse takeovers and other going public transactions, safeguarding them with creative legal solutions that allow them to take calculated risks to satisfy their business goals. Knowing the law and regulations explicitly, she has the ability to work within this framework to bring about progress and growth.

Nafeesa also works with private companies as they navigate through their growth spectrum. These industries range from technology, health and wellness, mining, transportation, clean energy and venture capital across all life stages. Whether their end goal is growth and retaining ownership, an acquisition, significant private investment or going public, she operates with a business-driven approach to advance their business interests.

Her savvy business background makes Nafeesa an invaluable resource for clients. Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, she is alive to the challenges businesses face, from financing to personnel to the ideation of products, services and marketing. This background allows her to address client issues from an experienced commercial standpoint.

Nafeesa is a trusted legal advisor whose forward-thinking approach caters to clients’ legal needs of today and tomorrow. As the legal and technical landscapes shift in the industries her clients operate in, Nafeesa processes these changes with speed and precision so she can help her clients navigate the changing landscape and stay on course whatever their end goal is.

Nafeesa grew up in an environment where ethics and values were ingrained at an early age. She brings those principles of hard work and dedication to her practice, helping advance the business interests of our clients.

Areas of FocusCorporateMergers and AcquisitionsEquity Capital MarketsEmerging Growth and Venture CapitalMining and Mineral ResourcesLife SciencesTechnologyPrivate Equity
Bar admissions / Professional QualificationsBritish Columbia, 2009

EXPERIENCE

  • Issuer’s counsel on IPO of medical device technology company on Canadian Securities Exchange and pre-listing financings and acquisition of technology. 
  • Issuer’s counsel on acquisition and IPO on Canadian Securities Exchange of life sciences company doing research and development of oncology drug therapeutic. 
  • Counsel to mineral exploration company on acquisition of Peruvian mining properties and historical mine site.  
  • Counsel to private mineral exploration company on sale of Nevada property portfolio to public company. 
  • Counsel to strategic foreign investors in Canadian public companies in connection with equity drawdown facility, debt and convertible debt financings. 
  • Issuer’s counsel on $172 million technology company IPO, Toronto Stock listing and concurrent buy-out of majority shareholder’s interest and corporate restructuring. 
  • Issuer’s counsel on the listing of one of the largest esports and gaming companies in the world and pre-listing merger of gaming companies and concurrent subscription receipt financing and corporate restructuring. 
  • Counsel for TSX Venture Exchange issuer on its plan of arrangement with life sciences companies and the concurrent financing.
  • Counsel for technology issuer on its $15 million bought deal short form prospectus offering of common shares and on its going public transaction and advising on other securities related matters.
  • Counsel for mineral exploration company on its $10.45 million acquisition of gold/silver project in Northern Chile through the acquisition of foreign company.
  • Counsel for CPC in its qualifying transaction to acquire a gaming company and list on the TSX Venture Exchange and post-listing acquisitions of complementary technology and esports companies and related strategic financing.
  • Counsel for investment issuer on is $12 million prospectus offering of 8% convertible debentures.
  • Counsel for renewable energy on its going private transaction and delisting from the TSX Venture Exchange by way of a plan of arrangement involving a sale of their power projects to third parties.
  • Counsel for entertainment company with record label on its going private transaction and delisting from the TSX Venture involving the buy-out of minority shareholders’ interests by the largest shareholder.
  • Issuer’s counsel advising mineral exploration company on securities matters in connection with the company’s restructuring under the Companies’ Creditors Assistance Act (Canada).
  • Counsel for a private cybersecurity company through its early-stage financings and corporate restructuring, and on its sale to an international accounting firm.
  • Counsel for a gaming start-up through their Series A and Series B financings and negotiating an investment and joint venture with a private equity fund. Advising start-ups on founders’ investments and early-stage financings.
  • Advising special committees of various boards of directors on significant transactions, fiduciary duties, related party transactions and shareholder activists.
Languages
  • English
Education
  • LL.B, University of British Columbia, 2008
  • BA (Honours with Distinction), History and International and Comparative Studies, Western University, 2005

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

  • Lawyer to Watch, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory® (Corporate Finance & Securities) 2022
  • Best Lawyers in Canada (Mergers and Acquisitions Law) 2021-2025; (Corporate Law) 2023-2025  
  • Lexpert-ranked leading Finance and M&A lawyer, 2022

Publications and media

  • Co-author, Ongoing compliance under ‘modern slavery act,’ implications for junior issuers, Law360, June 25, 2024

Community Involvement

  • Previously involved, Westcoast Family Centres, Community Development Committee
  • Previously involved, Make-A-Wish British Columbia & Yukon, Gala Committee

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Member, Association of Mineral Exploration (British Columbia) Taxation, Securities and Investment Sub-Committee
  • Member, British Columbia Securities Commission Corporate Finance Stakeholder Forum
  • Canadian Bar Association (Securities Law and Business Law Subsections)
  • Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada
  • Association of Corporate Growth
  • Association of Women in Finance
  • Ismaili Legal Professionals Network  

My latest insights

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DLA Piper Canada welcomes partner Nafeesa Valli-Hasham

16 September 2024 .2 minute read

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