Niko Veilleux

Niko Veilleux

Niko is Head of Osler’s Montréal Corporate Group, advising clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, capital markets offerings, and complex cross-border deals. With over 25 years of experience representing public and private clients, Niko delivers practical solutions that align legal strategy with commercial objectives across the full spectrum of corporate and securities matters.

Niko advises a wide range of clients, including public and private companies, private equity sponsors, pension funds, boards, independent committees, issuers, and underwriters. His expertise encompasses negotiated and contested acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, auctions, take-over bids, carve-outs, strategic investments, recapitalizations, reorganizations, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions. Niko’s private equity expertise spans a range of private equity transactions, including leveraged buyouts, take-private deals, secondary market transactions and strategic acquisitions. His guidance extends beyond deal-making to encompass securities law compliance, corporate governance, and other areas that ensure successful acquisitions, and exits. Attentive to each client’s strategic priorities, he delivers knowledgeable advice that balances legal precision with practical business insight.

Drawing on experience gained at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Australia before returning to Canada in 2004, Niko provides clients a valued cross-border perspective to Canadian, U.S. and international transactions. His familiarity with multiple legal systems supports efficient execution of multi-jurisdictional deals across various sectors, including infrastructure, manufacturing, media and entertainment, mining and natural resources, telecommunications, and transportation.

Niko is recognized for his problem-solving abilities and negotiation skills. He has taught mergers and acquisitions law at McGill University’s Faculty of Law, and his extensive transaction experience reflects the long-standing relationships he maintains with prominent corporate clients in Québec, Canada, and internationally.


Awards and Recognition

  • Chambers Canada: Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business: Recognized in Corporate/Commercial (Quebec)
  • The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory: Recognized in Corporate Commercial Law; Corporate Mid-Market; Mergers & Acquisitions; Corporate Finance & Securities; Private Equity
  • Best Lawyers in Canada: Recognized in Corporate Law; Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law; Mergers and Acquisitions Law; Securities Law
  • Legal 500: Ranked in The Legal 500 Canada: Corporate and Mergers & Acquisition
  • Lexpert Special Edition: Recognized in Energy

Community Involvement

  • Member of the Board of Directors of the Fondation du CHUM

Credentials

Education

  • Harvard Business School, PLD
  • McGill University, LL.B., B.C.L.

Languages

  • English
  • French

Professional Affiliations

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • New York Bar Association
  • Bar Association of the City of New York
  • American Bar Association