Gurpreet Brar

Gurpreet Brar is Partner, Consulting & Deals for PwC based in Winnipeg. He serves as the National Agriculture Leader and the Manitoba & Saskatchewan 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 Ag industry value chain (agri-seed processing, primary production, AgTech, equipment manufacturing and distribution, agri-food processing, distribution & 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, technology, healthcare, insurance, and retail).

Some noteworthy transactions that Gurpreet has been involved with include:

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

• Advising MSP Starch Products on an M&A transaction with Quadra Group

• Advising Structural Composite Technologies on an M&A transasction with Springboard Capital

• Advising JCA Industries on an M&A transaction with AGCO Corporation

• Advising Kletke Seed Farm on an M&A transaction with a Private Investor Group

• Advising Prince Albert Photocopier on an M&A transaction with an Indigenous Investment Consortium

• Advising North End Spring & Trailer on an M&A transaction with White Spruce Partners

• Advising DCC Hail on an M&A transaction with AutoCanada Inc.

• Advising Landau Ford Lincoln on an M&A transaction with Capital Automotive Group

• Advising a Confidential Civil Contractor Company on an M&A transaction with Nelson River Construction

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

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

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

• 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

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, he serves as a volunteer for the Loran Scholars Foundation and the McCall MacBain Scholarships at McGill.