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Rob Nicholls
Rob Nicholls
Senior Associate — Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity
E: rnicholls@velaw.com T: +1.212.237.0018
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Senior Associate — Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity

Rob Nicholls

Rob Nicholls
New York
T: +1.212.237.0018
F: +1.917.849.5301

The Grace Building
1114 Avenue of the Americas
32nd Floor
New York, New York 10036

E: rnicholls@velaw.com
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Rob Nicholls

Rob is on a leave of absence on secondment to a client.

Rob’s principal areas of practice are private equity, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets. He counsels private equity funds, their portfolio companies, and a variety of public and private companies in connection with strategic investments, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as general corporate matters. He also has experience in a variety of corporate finance matters.

Experience Highlights

  • Talen Energy Corporation and Cumulus Growth Holdings and its subsidiaries in connection with the restructuring of Talen Energy Supply and its chapter 11 cases

  • A private Canadian multi-national company in its purchase of a private Canadian agriculture producer

  • Canadian counsel to a private Taiwanese seafood conglomerate in its acquisition of a private North American shelf-stable seafood company

  • A private equity firm in its purchase and conversion of secured debt of a Canadian paintball company through receivership proceedings

  • A public Canadian healthcare services provider in a bought deal offering of common shares

  • A Canadian underwriter in connection with a bought deal public offering of common shares of a public Canadian company

Credentials

  • University of Western Ontario, J.D., 2017
  • Trinity College at the University of Toronto, Honours B.A., Philosophy and Bioethics, 2013
  • Rob is on a leave of absence on secondment to a client
  • Member: Ontario Law Society
  • Guest Lecturer: University of Western Ontario
  • Only in Ontario; not admitted in New York
  • French (conversational)
  • “Clause for Concern? Sandbagging Provisions in Canadian M&A” – Blakes Business Class, 2017 (co-author)
  • “The Rise of the Reverse Vesting Order in Canada” – Financier Worldwide Magazine, 2021 (co-author)
  • “Trending Decisions; Cases We Are Following” – Rebuilding Success (CAIRP), 2021 (co-author)