Overview

Chima is a partner in the Emerging and High Growth Companies Group of our Montreal office and Chair of Osler's Venture Fund Group. He practices corporate and securities law with an emphasis on private equity/venture capital fund formations and investments, emerging companies, corporate finance and private mergers and acquisitions.
Chima has acted for various private equity and venture capital funds in connection with their structuring and formation. He also has experience advising pension funds in connection with their investments in Canadian and international private equity funds. Chima regularly advises emerging companies at all stages of growth as well as the venture capital funds and other investors that finance them. He has also acted for corporations and investment banks in connection with corporate finance transactions and has extensive experience advising buyers and sellers in connection with acquisitions and dispositions of shares and assets.
In 2020 Chima was recognized as a Lexpert Rising Star: Leading Lawyers Under 40.
Storytime Capital in its launching of its second venture capital fund of over $14 million
TandemLaunch Technologies Inc. in its closing of $37-million fund
Amplitude Ventures in its closing of its $263 million venture capital fund
Luge Capital in its closing of $71 million of its target $100 million fund
Impression Ventures in the $64-million initial closing of its venture capital fund
iNovia Capital in the launch of its $416 million venture capital fund
Awz Ventures in the launch of Awz X-Seed, the firm's seed-stage technology accelerator and investment fund
Information Venture Partners in the $124 million closing of its third venture capital fund
Round13 Capital in the formation of two new venture capital funds
FlexPay in its $6 million late seed round led by Impression Ventures
Untether AI in its $20 million Series A financing with Radical Ventures
Information Venture Partners in Verafin's $515 million venture funding
Xanadu Quantum Technologies Inc. raises $32 million Series A for Quantum Cloud Computing Platform.
Osler's fourth annual comprehensive report on venture capital and growth equity financing transactions in Canada’s emerging and high growth...
Read how a Canadian-oriented approach may help reduce the tax inefficiencies inherent in structuring funds based on the U.S. model.
Osler's fourth annual comprehensive report on venture capital and growth equity financing transactions in Canada’s emerging and high growth...
Private asset investing is expected to evolve and grow in the coming years.
Osler’s Emerging and High Growth Practice is proud to announce the formation of a dedicated Venture Fund Group.
Osler is proud to announce that 168 of our lawyers have been recognized in the 2022 Best Lawyers Canada rankings
Osler is pleased to announce 21 of our lawyers have been recognized as leading lawyers in the Lexpert Special Edition: Technology 2021.
Osler is pleased to congratulate Alex Gorka and Chima Ubani for being recognized as 2020 Lexpert Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40.

Practice Areas

• Banking/Finance
• Commercial Law
• Corporate Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2008 (QC)