Yevgeniya Huggins

Associate

Yevgeniya Huggins

Yevgeniya Huggins

Associate

Expertise
Bar Admissions
  • Ontario, 2023

Yevgeniya is developing a broad corporate practice.

She has assisted on a range of transactions, including initial public offerings, securities offerings, public and private mergers and acquisitions, financings, corporate governance and other corporate matters.

Prior to joining Davies, Yevgeniya worked in corporate and commercial lending at a multinational investment bank. Subsequently, she was a specialty liability underwriter for financial institutions and a subject matter expert in cyber liability at an insurance company.

Yevgeniya Huggins

Associate

Yevgeniya is developing a broad corporate practice.

She has assisted on a range of transactions, including initial public offerings, securities offerings, public and private mergers and acquisitions, financings, corporate governance and other corporate matters.

Prior to joining Davies, Yevgeniya worked in corporate and commercial lending at a multinational investment bank. Subsequently, she was a specialty liability underwriter for financial institutions and a subject matter expert in cyber liability at an insurance company.

J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

Acted as Canadian counsel to the initial purchasers, led by J.P. Morgan, in the private placement of US$500 million of senior notes of GFL Environmental Inc.

National Bank Financial Markets, BMO Capital Markets and RBC Capital Markets

Acted as Canadian counsel for a syndicate of underwriters led by National Bank Financial Markets, BMO Capital Markets  and RBC Capital Markets in connection with IAMGOLD Corporation's US$300-million public offering of common shares, conducted concurrently in Canada (excluding Québec and Nunavut) pursuant to Canadian prospectus requirements and in the United States pursuant to the U.S. multijurisdictional disclosure system.

RBC Capital Markets and Scotiabank

Acted for the syndicate of agents, co-led by RBC Capital Markets and Scotiabank, in TMX Group Limited's Canadian private placement offering of $300 million aggregate principal amount of senior unsecured debentures.

Infinity Home Services

Acted for Infinity Homes Services, a private equity-backed leader in residential roofing and exterior remodeling services, in its Canadian acquisition of Wheatland Roofing, a roofing company serving the Regina, Saskatchewan area.

New Gold Inc.

Acted for New Gold Inc. in its US$255-million partial repurchase of a free cash flow royalty interest in New Afton mine from its strategic partner, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, reducing the royalty to 19.9%.

Blackstone Inc.

Acted for Blackstone in its US$3.5-billion take-private acquisition of Tricon Residential Inc., an owner, operator and developer of a portfolio of approximately 38,000 single-family rental homes in the U.S. Sun Belt and multi-family apartments in Toronto.

RBC Capital Markets, LLC and RBC Dominion Securities Inc.

Acted for RBC Capital Markets, LLC and RBC Dominion Securities Inc. on the US$723.4-million cross-border secondary offering of subordinate voting shares of GFL Environmental Inc.

BMO Capital Markets, National Bank Financial and TD Securities

Acted for the syndicate of agents, co-led by BMO Capital Markets, National Bank Financial and TD Securities, in TMX Group Limited's Canadian private placement of C$1.1 billion aggregate principal amount of senior debentures issued across three series.

A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund

Acting for A&W Revenue Royalties Income Fund in its strategic combination with A&W Food Services of Canada to create a leading publicly-traded quick-service restaurant company.

J.P. Morgan

Acting for J.P. Morgan, as financial advisor to the board of directors of Canadian Western Bank (CWB), in connection with the C$5-billion sale of CWB to National Bank of Canada by way of share exchange.

Barrick Gold Corporation

Acted for Barrick Gold Corporation to establish a base shelf prospectus qualifying up to US$4 billion of securities in Canada and the United States under the multijurisdictional disclosure system.

Lithium Royalty Corp

Acted for Lithium Royalty Corp. in its C$150-million initial public offering of common shares underwritten by a syndicate co-led by Canaccord Genuity Corp and Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc.

Agnico Eagle Mines Limited

Acted for Agnico Eagle Mines Limited in its joint topping bid with Pan American Silver Corp. for the US$4.8-billion acquisition of Yamana Gold Inc., pursuant to which Pan American acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Yamana and Agnico Eagle acquired Yamana's Canadian assets (including its interest in the Canadian Malartic mine).

Osgoode Hall Law School—Hyman Bergel Prize in Advanced Torts (2022); Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Award (2020, 2021); Ivan Cleveland Rand Prize (2020); Harry R. Rose Criminal Law Prize (2020)

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 2023

Education

Osgoode Hall Law School, JD, 2022
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, BComm, 2013