Sarvi Veylan’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.
- Executive, Canadian Bar Association British Columbia Branch Real Property subsection (Co-Chair, present; Treasurer, 2017-2018; Legislative Liaison, 2016-2017)
- Member, British Columbia Real Estate Commission Drug Operations Group (2017-present)
- Director, Vancouver Bar Association (2012-2014)
- Volunteer, Access Pro Bono Society of B.C. (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
- University of New Brunswick George McAllister Prize in Torts (highest standing in torts)
- University of New Brunswick Allan Earle Scholarship (academic excellence)
- Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot (Canadian Round) top 25 oral advocate