Nick Viavant helps businesses navigate commercial contracts, vendor relationships, technology transactions, and emerging operational risk. He works with clients to identify practical paths forward when legal, business, technical, and regulatory issues overlap.
Nick advises companies, nonprofits, executives, in-house counsel, business owners, and operational leaders on contract negotiation, governance, compliance, procurement, data privacy, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and digital infrastructure matters. His practice is grounded in practical business judgment: helping clients understand the risk landscape, evaluate options, and decide when to accept, mitigate, transfer, or resolve risk.
Nick’s background includes experience in private practice, state government, insurance, emergency services, and outside counsel roles. Before joining McGrath North, he served as outside counsel and fractional general counsel to technology, healthcare-adjacent, startup, and nonprofit clients, advising on commercial agreements, privacy compliance, operational risk, dispute prevention, and governance. He also negotiated public-sector healthcare and procurement agreements for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.
He also managed vendor disputes, pre-litigation resolution efforts, and multi-jurisdictional insurance matters — experience that informs his practical approach to risk allocation, contract drafting, and dispute avoidance.
Earlier in his career, Nick worked at Venable LLP in Washington, D.C., where he advised on commercial real estate finance and securitization transactions involving more than $13 billion in multifamily property loans. His experience with complex transactions, diligence, documentation, and risk allocation informs his current work helping clients structure durable agreements and scalable legal processes.
Nick also brings experience with emerging legal and technical systems. Through his work with LexDAO, a decentralized legal engineering organization, he has supported governance, contributor coordination, treasury management, grant execution, and legal infrastructure for open-source and technology-driven projects. That work gives him a practical understanding of how legal structures, technology, incentives, and operations intersect in fast-moving environments.
Clients value Nick’s straightforward, strategic, and practical approach. He focuses on understanding each client’s business, operating environment, and goals, then translating legal complexity into clear options and actionable next steps.
Not originally from Nebraska, Nick has embraced Omaha as home. His background and connections span Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, Washington State, Connecticut, and Ohio, giving him a broad perspective and national network. Outside the office, Nick and his family stay busy with three young children and a family life centered on outdoor recreation, sports, community, and time together.
