Iñaki's dual practice focuses on securities registrant regulation, investment management and compliance matters, and on general corporate matters, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, and venture capital and private equity transactions.
He provides regulatory advice on topics such as emerging digital assets and financial services products, including cryptocurrencies, crypto asset trading platforms and blockchain, and has advised digital asset companies and other securities market participants on Canadian registration requirements and compliance. Additionally, he has helped digital asset companies become publicly listed in Canada.
Iñaki is a member of the firm's Cryptocurrency & Blockchain's group. He competed as a race walker, representing Canada at major international sporting events, including the 2012 London and 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto, and World Athletics' (formerly, the International Association of Athletics Federations) World Athletics Championships. Since his retirement from competition, he has remained an athlete advocate in the sport community, taking on leadership roles at various levels of national and international sport.
Experience
- Advising and preparing applications on behalf of foreign and domestic securities market participants in respect of carrying on business in Canada and seeking registration as dealers, advisers and/or investment fund managers under provincial securities legislation, including participants in the digital assets space and crypto asset trading platforms.
- Acted for WonderFi Technologies Inc. (and DeFi Ventures Inc.) in its reverse takeover acquisition of Austpro Energy Corporation (renamed "WonderFi Technologies Inc."), and on DeFi Ventures Inc.’s brokered private placement through subscription receipt financing for over $17.7 million.
- Acted for EverGen Infrastructure Corp., a renewable gas infrastructure platform, in its $20.1 million initial public offering and listing on the TSX Venture Exchange.
- Advising and preparing applications on behalf of foreign and domestic securities market participants in respect of carrying on business in Canada and seeking registration as dealers, advisers and/or investment fund managers under provincial securities legislation, including participants in the digital assets space and crypto asset trading platforms.
- Acted for WonderFi Technologies Inc. (and DeFi Ventures Inc.) in its reverse takeover acquisition of Austpro Energy Corporation (renamed "WonderFi Technologies Inc."), and on DeFi Ventures Inc.’s brokered private placement through subscription receipt financing for over $17.7 million.
- Acted for EverGen Infrastructure Corp., a renewable gas infrastructure platform, in its $20.1 million initial public offering and listing on the TSX Venture Exchange.
