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In Bernard’s private equity fund formation and fund investing practice, he has represented

• Alberta Investment Management Corporation, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Fondaction, Northleaf Capital Partners and OMERS Private Equity in numerous fund investment activities
• limited partners in their secondary market purchases of interests in various private equity funds
• The Toronto-Dominion Bank in the spinout of Northleaf Capital Partners in 2009
• a large international investment manager making regular investments in U.S.- and European-based private equity funds
• a large U.S.-based governmental pension plan making regular investments in U.S.-based private equity funds
• various Canadian fund sponsors (including Brookfield Asset Management) in all aspects of planning, organizing and negotiating their U.S. and Canadian private equity funds
• a California based money manager setting up a series of captive private equity funds to assist its clients in diversifying into certain asset classes
• several U.S.-based investment managers forming initial or follow-on hedge funds

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