Rishi Verma

Rishi's practice focuses on advising clients on a wide variety of capital markets transactions, including financings, public offerings and private placements of securities, as well as mergers and acquisitions. He also advises clients on corporate governance and securities law regulatory matters, including continuous disclosure obligations and stock exchange matters.

Rishi summered at Blakes after his second year of law school and articled with the Firm upon graduation.

The underwriters on the largest IPO in history, SpaceX's US$86-billion global initial public offering, which included a public prospectus offering in Canada

Syndicate of underwriters in connection with Extendicare Inc.'s inaugural senior unsecured notes offering by private placement of C$450-million aggregate principal amount of notes bearing interest at 4.345% maturing in April 2031

Syndicate of underwriters in connection with Extendicare Inc.'s C$200-million private placement of common shares

Syndicate of underwriters in connection with Aclara Resources Inc.'s C$118-million combined initial public offering (IPO), private placement and TSX listing, effected concurrently with the spin-off of Aclara from its parent company, Hochschild Mining plc