Zahra Naqvi

Associate

Zahra Naqvi

Zahra Naqvi

Associate

Expertise
Bar Admissions
  • Ontario, 2021

Zahra is developing a broad corporate practice.

Zahra has assisted on a range of transactions, including private and public mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, securities offerings, financings, shareholder activism, corporate governance and other corporate matters.

Zahra Naqvi

Associate

Zahra is developing a broad corporate practice.

Zahra has assisted on a range of transactions, including private and public mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, securities offerings, financings, shareholder activism, corporate governance and other corporate matters.

Scotia Capital Inc and TD Securities

Acted for a syndicate of underwriters, co-led by Scotia Capital Inc. and TD Securities Inc. in an offering of C$200-million aggregate principal amount of Series L Notes of Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust due March 29, 2030.

Blackstone Inc.

Acting for Blackstone in its US$3.5-billion take-private acquisition of Tricon Residential Inc., an owner, operator and developer of a portfolio of approximately 38,000 single-family rental homes in the U.S. Sun Belt and multi-family apartments in Toronto.

TD Securities Inc., Scotia Capital Inc. and BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc.

Acted for a syndicate of underwriters, led by TD Securities Inc., Scotia Capital Inc. and BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. in an offering of C$200-million aggregate principal amount of Series K Notes of Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust due September 28, 2029.

Valley Fiber Ltd.

Acted for Valley Fiber, a portfolio company of DIF Capital, in its acquisition of Commstream GigaLinks, an independent internet service provider in Manitoba.

Enerflex Ltd.

Acted as Canadian financing counsel to Enerflex Ltd. in establishing a US$700-million revolving credit facility, a US$150-million term loan and a US$925-million bridge credit facility for its US$735-million business combination with Exterran Corporation to create a premier integrated global provider of energy infrastructure.

Enerflex Ltd.

Acted as Canadian counsel to Enerflex Ltd. in its U.S. and Canadian private placement of US$625-million high-yield senior secured notes.

Valley Fiber Ltd.

Acted for Valley Fiber, a portfolio company of DIF Capital, in its acquisition of Waterside Wireless, an independent internet service provider in Manitoba.

Beanfield Technologies Inc.

Acted for Beanfield Technologies Inc., a portfolio company of DigitalBridge, in its acquisition of Urbanfibre, a leading internet service and wholesale fibre provider operating in the Greater Vancouver Area.

Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs

Acted as Canadian counsel to the underwriters, led by Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, in the US$700-million cross-border initial public offering of Bausch + Lomb Corporation, a leading global eye health business.

Crombie REIT

Acted for a syndicate of underwriters, led by Scotia Capital Inc. and BMO Nesbitt Burns Inc. as joint bookrunners, in an offering of an aggregate of $200 million of trust units of Crombie REIT and Class B LP units of Crombie Limited Partnership exchangeable for trust units of Crombie.

Beanfield Metroconnect

Acted for Beanfield Metroconnect, a portfolio company of DigitalBridge, in its acquisition of FibreStream, an Internet service provider operating in the Greater Toronto Area, Ottawa and Vancouver.

TD Securities Inc. and Goldman Sachs Canada Inc.

Acted for a syndicate of underwriters led by TD Securities Inc. and Goldman Sachs Canada Inc., as joint bookrunners, on the C$402.5-million initial public offering of Softchoice Corporation, a leading technology solutions provider in North America.

DigitalBridge

Acted for DigitalBridge, the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc., in connection with the sale of the Canadian data centres and the associated colocation business of one of its portfolio companies, Aptum Technologies, to eStruxture Data Centers Inc.

Law Society of Ontario Award—Outstanding Achievement in Legal Studies

University of Western Ontario—James G. McKee Award

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 2021

Education

University of Western Ontario, JD (with Distinction), 2020
Ivey Business School, University of Western Ontario, HBA (with Distinction), 2016