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Nicole Park is a seasoned corporate/commercial and M&A lawyer revered for her adept management of private mergers and acquisitions. Her extensive experience spans domestic, cross-border and international transactions, as well as insolvency-based transactions. With a focus on private equity transactions across a broad range of industries, Nicole also lends her experience to corporate reorganizations, corporate governance matters, and provides day-to-day and strategic advice on business partnerships, corporate finance matters and commercial agreements.

In 2017, Nicole enriched her legal and business acumen during a tenure as in-house counsel for Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited – a TSX-listed issuer with a diversified portfolio including a retail segment, a financial services division and CT REIT. Collaborating with all facets of the business, Nicole gained significant experience in the retail industry, and acted on a variety of matters related to securities law, exchange requirements, corporate governance and corporate finance matters. 

In 2025, Nicole was recognized as a Lexpert Rising Star and as a Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyer and in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in Corporate Mid-Market.

Nicole is currently a board member of The Japan Society Canada and has previously contributed her insights as an alternate legal board member of the Ontario Cancer Research Ethics Board, a pivotal oncology research ethics board serving almost every hospital in Ontario that conducts cancer clinical trials.