Miriam Okafor-Lindqvist

Profile

Miriam Okafor-Lindqvist is Chair of Corvane Ryle LLP, a role she has held since 2022, and a partner in the New York office. She advises boards, special committees and management teams on public and private mergers, carve-outs and cross-border combinations, with a particular focus on retail and consumer and technology companies.

Miriam is known for steering transactions through contested situations, including unsolicited approaches, activist pressure and multi-jurisdictional regulatory review. She works closely with the firm's Antitrust & Competition and Artificial Intelligence teams so that deal structure, regulatory strategy and diligence are planned together from the first day.

Alongside her client work, Miriam leads the firm's global strategy and its commitment to pro bono service. Her recent writing includes Consumer and Retail M&A Outlook for 2027, AI Governance for Boards and The New HSR Form One Year On. Her practice sits within the firm's Mergers & Acquisitions group.

Experience

Miriam Okafor-Lindqvist's representative matters include the following, many of which are confidential and described in general terms.

• Advised Halvern Retail Group on its acquisition of Brightmoor Foods, including the financing, antitrust clearance strategy and integration planning.
• Represented the board of a NYSE-listed specialty retailer in response to an unsolicited proposal from a private equity consortium, culminating in a negotiated sale at a significant premium.
• Advised Northwall Capital on its acquisition of Larkspur Apparel and the subsequent sale of two non-core brands.
• Counseled Fennwick Home on a series of bolt-on acquisitions in European online furniture retail.
• Advised the special committee of a controlled consumer products company in connection with a going-private transaction.
• Represented Tidewater Logistics in a cross-border acquisition requiring merger control filings in eleven jurisdictions.
• Advised a global technology company on the US$4 billion carve-out and sale of its enterprise software division.
• Represented Arvelo Health in a strategic acquisition of a telehealth platform and the related minority investment round.
• Advised a multinational food and beverage group on a stock-for-stock merger of equals, including governance and board composition terms.
• Counseled Castellan Hotels on the sale of a portfolio of owned properties and the shift to a franchised model.
• Advised Ashgrove Motors on the formation of an electric vehicle battery joint venture with an Asian cell manufacturer.
• Advised the board of a publicly traded healthcare services provider on strategic alternatives, including a dual-track sale and recapitalization process.
• Represented a consumer brands group in a hostile tender offer defense and subsequent settlement with an activist investor.

Qualifications

Bar admissions

• State Bar of Illinois
• State Bar of New York

Education

• JD, The University of Chicago Law School
• BA, Economics, Northwestern University