Nioura F. Ghazni is a partner in the Corporate Practice Group in the firm’s San Francisco office and is a member of the firm’s Healthcare industry team.

Areas of Practice

Nioura represents for-profit and non-profit hospitals and health systems, and a diverse group of technology companies on strategic transactions. She has extensive experience in the areas of corporate and securities law, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings and strategic affiliations. With more than a decade of business and transactional experience, Nioura brings a depth of diverse transactional knowledge to her counsel role and is sought after for her creativity in structuring transactions. A significant portion of Nioura's practice is focused in healthcare, digital health, and technology.

Nioura has led several successful acquisitions and restructuring transactions, including the restructuring of a health plan and affiliation with a major health system in the Northwest, the sale of a health plan in New York and the acquisition by a high-profile university affiliate of an online university. Nioura has also led a large number of venture capital and strategic financings for emerging growth companies, including the major strategic investment by a high profile music publishing company in a technology-based music company.  Prior to private practice, Nioura was in-house counsel at an emerging digital health startup in Silicon Valley, where she provided corporate legal services and led the business development group.