Amrit Toor, Toronto

About Amrit

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

In 2025, Amrit completed a secondment with a leading non-prime lender, where he worked on a wide variety of corporate, commercial and compliance matters. Prior to joining Blakes, Amrit worked at a leading North American financial institution.

Amrit joined Blakes as a summer student in 2021 and completed his articles with the Firm in 2022–2023.

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Representative matters in which Amrit has been involved include:

Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. on its acquisition of Stelco Holdings Inc., a transaction representing an enterprise value of approximately C$3.4-billion
Centersquare, a portfolio company of Brookfield, in its US$1-billion acquisition of 10 data centres across the United States and Canada
Saint-Gobain on its C$880-million acquisition of The Bailey Group of Companies, a leading manufacturer of metal building solutions in Canada
Suncor Energy Inc. on the sale of its wind and solar assets for C$730-million to Canadian Utilities Limited
HUB International Limited on various acquisitions in the insurance brokerage and benefits consulting space
Platinum Equity in connection with its significant investment in Motors & Armatures, Inc.
OpenGate Capital on its purchase of Player One Amusement Group from Cineplex
Fullsteam, a portfolio company of Aquiline Capital Partners, on various investments in Canadian software companies
A major casino operator in connection with various aspects of their land-based and digital offerings in Ontario
Various pension plans on their private equity, debt, real estate and infrastructure fund investments