Sarbjit Basra is a partner in the corporate and securities law practice areas with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and private equity.  He is experienced in a variety of transactions, including purchases and sales of businesses, reorganizations, financings from private and public capital sources, strategic alliances and outsourcings.

Sarb has played a key role in a number of mergers and acquisitions, including, most recently, acting for EdgeStone Capital Partners in connection with its sale to GMP Capital Trust.

In the private equity area, Sarb has extensive experience in fund formation and investment transactions and has represented fund sponsors and principals in connection with the establishment and structuring of private equity funds and other pooled investment vehicles.  In addition, he has represented a number of Canada's chartered banks and other Canadian institutions in connection with their private investment funds and the establishment of their employee co-investment programs.  Recently, Sarb advised EdgeStone Capital Partners in connection with the formation of the $800 million EdgeStone Capital Equity Fund III and ONCAP Investment Partners in connection with the formation of ONCAP II, a $575 million private equity fund.  He has also advised TD Capital Mezzanine Partners in connection with the establishment of the TD Capital Mezzanine Partners mezzanine debt fund.  He has also recently been involved in many complex and challenging circumstances facing private equity funds, including early termination events.

Sarb is included in LEXPERT Magazine's 2006 listing of Canada's Top 40 Lawyers Under 40 and in the Lexpert Guide to the Leading Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada as one of 20 corporate lawyers to watch.  He is listed as one of Canada's leading private equity counsel in Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Private Equity Lawyers.  He is also listed as recommended counsel in the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook, PLC's Cross-Border Private Equity Handbook and as a recommended lawyer in Global Counsel Handbooks' Private Equity Handbook.

Sarb has taught the business law segment of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Bar Admission Course and is currently a Special Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Queen's University where he teaches a seminar on advanced corporate law.  Sarb received a B.Comm. from the University of Alberta and an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1992.  He became a partner in 1996.

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