 Bennett Jones Education University of Saskatchewan, BA (International Studies), 2000, with high honours University of Ottawa, LLB, 2006 Bar Admissions Ontario, 2007 Sara Parchello provides strategic and practical advisory services and is a trusted counsel to her clients. Overview Sara has an employment and labour focused legal practice, with considerable understanding of the retail, hospitality and mining industries. She is a specialized resource for HR professionals and in-house counsel generalists to consult on employment-related issues, including drafting and enforcing restrictive covenants, human resources policy development, accommodation and disabilities and advice on workplace harassment complaints and investigations. She also provides employment litigation services and labour arbitration in the provincial and federal sector. Sara is regularly engaged by clients to provide respect in the workplace training with a focus on employer obligations under the Occupational Health & Safety Act and the Human Rights Code. Prior to joining Bennett Jones, Sara was Vice President & Associate General Counsel at Hudson's Bay Company and was previously was an associate at another leading Canadian law firm. She is also an advisory board member of Practical Law Canada and a member of the ACO Human Resources Committee. At the University of Ottawa, Sara earned the Beament Green Prize in Advocacy, the Maritime Law Book Ltd. Scholarship and the Nelligan O'Brien Payne LLP Prize. Sara also completed the Business Leadership for Women Lawyers through the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. ,,She has a lot of industry experience. She really brings practical experience, and is like a business partner with legal peers.,, Select Experience • Reunion Neuroscience Inc., in its take-private transaction with MPM Bioimpact. • Acquisition of IBI Group Inc. by Arcadis NV for $873 million via a plan of arrangement. • CF Acquisition Corp. VI, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald, as Canadian counsel on its business combination with Rumble Inc., a high growth neutral video distribution platform with an international user/subscriber base, valued at an initial enterprise value of US$2.1-billion. • The Watermill Group, in its acquisition of Weston Forest Products Inc., a leading distributor and remanufacturer of softwood and hardwood lumber and specialty panel products across North America. • True Wind Capital and its portfolio company, Transflo, in Transflo's approximately $20-million acquisition of Microdea, a document management software company in the transportation and logistics sector. • 1908 GP Inc., in the formation of 1908 LP and the formation and capitalization of POI Holdings LP by a syndicate of private Canadian investors led by Cody Church, on behalf of Clear North Capital, together with a team that included Rakesh Saraf (formerly of ATRF) and Kenny Albert (formerly of Kilmer Capital), and the acquisition of a majority interest in the business of POI Business Interiors Inc., a provider of workspace environment solutions and a Steelcase distributer in Ontario. • Diversified, in its acquisition of the business of Advanced Presentation Products. • Wilbur-Ellis Holdings II, Inc., in its acquisition of Nachurs Alpine Solutions. • Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., in its approximately US$300-million acquisition of RPM Technologies. • FlashStock Technology Inc., in its sale to Shutterstock, Inc., a leading global provider of commercial digital imagery, for approximately US$50 million. Provided advice on vendor side regarding executive employment issues and transfer of employees. • Xplornet Communications Inc., Canada's leading rural broadband service provider, in its acquisition from Vecima Networks Inc. of all YourLink Internet services operations in Saskatchewan for $28.75 million. Provided advice related to employee transfer issues. • McEwen Mining Inc. in its US$35-million cash purchase of the Black Fox Mine and other
assets from Primero Mining Corp. This was the first large Canadian acquisition of an
operations asset by McEwen Mining that employs approximately 300 employees. Employment
services included advice on the asset purchase agreement, on offers for hundred being hired
as part of the transaction, among other employment issues. • Wheaton Income (formerly Cannabis Wheaton Income Corp.), in its purchase of all of the issued and outstanding shares of RockGarden Medicinals (2014) Inc. • Regularly advise on mass terminations and business shutdowns in Ontario and more broadly across Canada. • Regularly advise on workplace investigations, including corporate governance and harassment related issues. • Regularly advise clients in the cannabis sector on employment related issues, including executive compensation issues; structuring employment relationships at production facilities, use of contractors, and the classification of employees as agricultural workers; consideration of successor employer issues from a labour relations perspective as cannabis licensed producers acquire greenhouses and other properties. |