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Sara Parchello provides strategic and practical advisory services and is a trusted counsel to her clients.

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.

Chambers Canada 2018

“She has a lot of industry experience. She really brings practical experience, and is like a business partner with legal peers.”

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.

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University of Saskatchewan, BA (International Studies), 2000, with high honours University of Ottawa, LLB, 2006 

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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

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