Daniela Acevedo

Daniela Acevedo is a Senior Associate in the Corporate group at Dentons Canada LLP, based in Toronto. Her practice focuses on Mergers and Acquisitions, with a particular emphasis on cross-border M&A.

Her practice encompasses a broad range of corporate and commercial matters. Daniela regularly advises clients on commercial arrangements, including master services agreements, supply and distribution agreements, and general terms and conditions. She also provides guidance on day-to-day corporate governance matters, corporate law compliance, and regulatory issues related to international trade.

Daniela has experience advising clients across a diverse range of industry sectors, including automotive, transportation, agriculture, real estate, manufacturing and advertising/marketing.

She earned her Juris Doctor from the University of Ottawa and holds a Master of Arts from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Daniela began her career at Dentons as a summer student in 2018 and returned to complete her articles with the firm in 2019–2020 before joining as an associate.

Her experience includes advising StackAdapt on its US$235 million financing led by Teachers' Venture Growth, the late-stage venture and growth investment arm of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan; advising Raymond James Ltd. as lead agent in a flow-through offering and a secondary sale of common shares in an offering of CA$75,000,000; advising Mattr Corp. in connection with its acquisition of AmerCable Incorporated, a US manufacturer of highly engineered wire and cable solutions; acting for the seller in relation to the sale of all of the issued and outstanding shares of MaxBounty, ULC to German-based fund Mrge; advising Motorola Solutions, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of Barrett Communications; acting for Sierra Metals Inc. in a proxy fight and its successful defence against an activist campaign to replace its board of directors; advising Magen Ventures I Inc. on its initial public offering and completion of its qualifying transaction with Grey Wolf Animal Health Inc.; and advising Gage Growth Corp. in connection with its $545 million going-private transaction by way of plan arrangement involving Terrascend Corp.

She also acted as counsel to West-Can Seal Coating Inc. in an arbitration under the New West Partnership Trade Agreement Bid Protest Mechanism and the Canada Free Trade Agreement against the Ministry of Highways and Infrastructure, resulting in a declaration of multiple breaches of the CFTA, adjusted scoring, recommendations that the Ministry remove performance requirements from all public tenders, and a complete review of the Ministry's procurement practices.

She holds a Master of Arts in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (2019), a JD, cum laude, from the University of Ottawa (2019, Dean's Honour List), completed an International Exchange Program at the University of Haifa (2017) and holds a BA, summa cum laude, in International Studies and Modern Languages from the University of Ottawa (2015). She was the recipient of the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (2016), was Valedictorian for the class of 2015 and placed second at the Gowling WLG Moot Court (2015).

She volunteers with Lawyers Feed the Hungry and has acted as pro bono co-counsel for UN Women on a confidential project.