Team > Lawyers > Abdel-Barr, Khaled
Khaled practises corporate and commercial law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. Khaled advises clients on a broad range of transactions, both domestic and cross-border, and in many different industries, including share and asset acquisitions and divestitures, debt and equity financings and corporate structuring and reorganizations. He acts for a number of private equity clients including HSBC Capital (Canada) Inc., Tricor Pacific Capital Inc., Wellspring Capital Management and Yellow Point Equity Partners.
Khaled also advises on acquisitions and dispositions of mines and significant mining projects and on a broad range of mining related matters including the negotiation of earn-in, joint venture and strategic alliance agreements, mineral title review, exploration, development, production, reclamation and mine closure.
Professional Activities
- Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association, Member
- Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, Member
Bar Admissions
- British Columbia (1996)
- Washington State (1995) (currently non-practising)
Education
- University of Windsor (LL.B., 1995)
- University of Detroit-Mercy (J.D., 1995)
- University of British Columbia (B.Comm., 1992)
Experience
Khaled has recently acted for:
- An electric utility in the $825 million purchase of an undivided interest in a 493 MW hydro-electric dam in British Columbia and the complex operating arrangements between the electric utility and its private sector co-owner
- Various Canadian and international private equity funds in connection with the financing, acquisition and disposition of their portfolio businesses, including:
- the acquisition of an extruded plastics business with manufacturing operations in Ontario and the United States, and the subsequent sale of that business
- the acquisition of a significant interest in a Canadian manufacturer of specialized tank trucks and trailers
- the acquisition of a packaging and printing business with operations in Ontario and the United States
- the acquisition of a specialty metals distribution and processing business with operations in Western Canada and the United States, and the subsequent sale of that business
- the acquisition of a significant interest in a manufacturer and distributor of industrial valves that serves the North American oil and gas markets
- the acquisition of an industrial supplies distribution company
- the acquisition of a well-known restaurant chain operating in Western Canada
- the acquisition of a cellulose pulp mill in British Columbia
- the acquisition of a number of agribusiness companies located in British Columbia
- The leading provider of repair parts and services for commercial kitchen equipment in Western Canada in connection with the sale of its business
- A distributor of pharmaceutical products in connection with the sale of its business
- An international mining company in connection with the sale of a large land package located in Alaska
- An international mining company in connection with the sale of a past-producing molybdenum mine in British Columbia
- An international mining company in connection with the sale of a land package located in Mexico
- A mining company in connection with the sale of various mine-sites located in British Columbia
- An AIM-listed corporation in connection with the acquisition of various mining interests including a mining project located in Greenland
- A US based coal company in connection with the sale of its coal mines located in British Columbia and Alberta to the Fording Coal Income Trust
