Gurpreet Brar

Gurpreet Brar is Managing Director, Consulting & Deals for PwC based in Winnipeg.  He serves as the Manitoba and Saskatchewan Corporate Finance Leader and the National Agribusiness Deals Leader.

Gurpreet assists businesses with strategic and business planning, strategic options/alternatives analysis, acquisitions of businesses, growth capital and financing, succession-driven shareholder monetization transactions, and divestitures / sale of businesses.

He has assisted companies across the Agribusiness value chain (agriculture inputs, primary production, agri-food processing and packaging, consumer end products, distribution and logistics) on successful strategic advisory and merger & acquisition (M&A) initiatives.

Gurpreet’s experience also includes working with businesses across other industry sectors on successful strategic advisory and M&A initiatives (including food & beverage, manufacturing, industrial products, business services, building products, automotive, transportation, e-Commerce and technology, healthcare/pharmacy, insurance, and retail).  

Some notable transactions that Gurpreet has been involved with include:

• Advising HyLife Ltd. on an M&A transaction with Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited

• Advising e-Commerce Apparel Company on an M&A transaction with a Private Investor

• Advising Cross Country Manufacturing (Ontario business) on an M&A transaction with Gincor Truck & Trailer Werx

• Advising Amenity Health Care in preparing for a strategic M&A transaction

• Advising Baltimore Insurance Brokers on an M&A transaction with Knight Archer Insurance Group

• Advising Priority Restoration Services on an M&A transaction with a Private Investor

• Advising St. James Volkswagen Audi on an M&A transaction with AutoCanada Inc.

• Advising Arctic Beverages Limited (Pepsi products distributor) on an M&A transaction with an Investment Consortium

• Advising McDiarmid Lumber on an M&A transaction with McMunn & Yates Building Supplies

• Advising Peerless Garments on an M&A transaction with ComWest Enterprise Corp.

• Advising Penner International (LTL division) on an M&A transaction with Manitoulin Transport

• Advising Celco Controls on an M&A transaction with High Road Capital Partners

• Various other confidential strategic advisory, M&A, and financing assignments

Prior to joining PwC Canada in 2007, Gurpreet worked as Manager, Business Planning & Strategy for a Canadian Public Company.  He is a graduate of McGill University where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and has attained the Corporate Finance (CF) qualification through the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants.  In the community, Gurpreet currently serves as Chair of the Manitoba Committee of the Loran Scholars Foundation and on the Major Donor Cabinet for United Way of Winnipeg.