Yasmina Mavani Associate | Toronto

About Yasmina

Yasmina's practice is primarily focused on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and complex corporate and commercial arrangements. Yasmina advises clients on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, carve-out transactions, equity investments, commercial contracts and joint ventures.

Yasmina has completed secondments with a Canadian multi-strategy alternative asset manager and a global food and beverage producer, where she worked on a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters.

Yasmina joined Blakes as a first-year summer student in 2015 and completed her articles with the Firm in 2017/2018. Prior to joining Blakes, she worked at a global investment bank.

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Recent representative matters include advising:

J.M. Smucker on its US$305-million divestiture of its Voortman brand to Second Nature Brands, a CapVest Partners portfolio company
Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners in connection with the recapitalization transaction of Xplore Inc.
Flipp Operations, a portfolio company of Truelink Capital, on its acquisition of the MEDIA Central Group
ABB in connection with its cable tray joint venture with Niedax
Payroc WorldAccess, a portfolio company of Parthenon Capital Partners, in connection with its acquisition of SterlingCard Payment Solutions
Industry Diesel & Turbo Service on its sale to M&D Distributors
TruArc Partners on its investment in New Directions Aromatics, a supplier of natural ingredients to beauty and personal care markets
Schlesinger Group, a portfolio company of Gauge Capital, on its acquisition of Methodify and AskingCanadians
Apollo Global Management on its acquisition of The Michaels Companies
Barentz, a Cinven portfolio company, on its acquisition of Pestell Nutrition from Wind Point Partners
L Catterton on its acquisition of Beauty Industry Group
Sagard Holdings on its strategic investment in Grayhawk Investment Strategies
Maroon Group, a portfolio company of CI Capital, in connection with its acquisition of the assets of Cambrian Chemicals
Arjun Infrastructure Partners and Fengate Asset Management in connection with the acquisition of the ONroute Service Centres
Blue Cross Life Insurance Company of Canada on its assumption reinsurance of British Columbia Life and Casualty Company
The Descartes Systems Group Inc. on its acquisition of the Management Systems Resources Inc. (e-customs) group of companies
Bartek Ingredients on its sale to TorQuest Partners
CI Financial Corp. on its acquisition of 75% of WealthBar