Sarvi’s practice focuses on real estate, financial services and corporate commercial law.
Sarvi works closely with business owners and operators in a variety of industries, including tourism, financial services, retail, health care, mining and natural resources. He has recently been involved in several high profile commercial and industrial property transactions and developments; private company mergers, acquisitions and combinations, multi-jurisdictional structured sale transactions, and corporate restructuring transactions and proceedings.
- Co-chair, Real Property Subsection, Canadian Bar Association (British Columbia, present)
- Treasurer, Real Property Subsection, Canadian Bar Association (British Columbia, 2017-2018)
- Legislative Liaison, Real Property Subsection, Canadian Bar Association (British Columbia, 2016-2017)
- Member, Real Estate Commission Drug Operations Group (British Columbia, 2017-present)
- Director, Vancouver Bar Association (Vancouver, 2012-2014)
- Volunteer, Access Pro Bono Society (British Columbia, 2010-present)
- Counsel to property owners in acquisitions and divestitures of large industrial, commercial and residential rental properties and real estate portfolios, with values ranging between $40 million and $150 million in Metro Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Whistler and Northern British Columbia
- Counsel to operator in a large industrial development on Port Metro Vancouver lands
- Counsel to a lender in a $40-million loan transaction related to industrial development of port lands
- Counsel to real estate developers in multi-family, single family subdivision, commercial and industrial projects in Metro Vancouver and surrounding areas
- Counsel to corporations and real estate investment trusts in acquisitions and divestitures of commercial properties in resorts across North America, including major properties in Whistler, British Columbia
- Counsel to a REIT on a $160-million sale of six seniors’ lodge properties in Alberta and British Columbia
- British Columbia counsel to the purchaser of the Canadian operation of a large, multi-national consumer goods manufacturer
- Counsel to the Vancouver Regional Construction Association in its founding of the Vancouver Zero Emissions Building Centre of Excellence
- George McAllister Prize for highest standing, Torts (New Brunswick)
- Allan Earle Scholarship for academic excellence (New Brunswick)
- Top 25 Oral Advocate, Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot