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Mia Bacic provides thoughtful and pragmatic advice and works closely with clients to deliver creative and efficient solutions for a wide range of corporate securities, M&A, and private equity matters. She is described by clients as being "an exceptionally good lawyer, always gives sound legal advice and provides incredible service".

Overview

Mia has over 20 years of experience advising on a broad range of corporate and securities transactional and compliance matters, focusing on private and public M&A transactional work, including financings, restructurings and recapitalizations. She also advises on corporate governance and risk management issues, stock exchange listings, and securities regulatory and registration and compliance matters.

She has particular expertise in and regularly advises both fund sponsors and investors on a wide range of alternative fund investments and fund formations in Canada and internationally. She regularly represents some of the largest pension fund managers in Canada, municipal governments, corporate and government pension funds and other strategic investors, university foundations, funds of funds and sophisticated Canadian and foreign family offices. In addition, Mia has a broad experience in providing advice to institutional investors and managers with negotiation of complex investment management and asset management agreements, and related supporting agreements.

Mia advises clients across diverse industries (including, biotech and life sciences, renewable power and energy, technology and mining), and various asset classes (including private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate).

Mia has been ranked among Canada's top lawyers in Chambers Canada in the area of Corporate Commercial Law and in the Best Lawyers in the area of Corporate Law. In 2017, Mia was awarded the Lexpert Zenith Award, which celebrates women in law.

Mia has lectured for the Law Society of British Columbia Professional Legal Training Course and for the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia on corporate law matters. She speaks regularly at legal education conferences, and publishes articles on relevant legal issues.

Client Work

Canadian institutional investment manager in the sale of its CAD76.5 million interest in various Canadian mature, closed-end, private equity funds to a large institutional investment manager.
Canadian institutional investment manager in its US$200 million investment in a US$12 billion global private equity fund.
Canadian institutional investment manager in its EUR 175 million investment in a EUR 25 billion private equity fund, structured as series of complex multiple parallel partnerships.
Canadian institutional investment manager in its US$50 million co-investment in a US$600 million co-investment vehicle established to invest alongside the same sponsor's flagship fund.
Canadian institutional investment manager in its US$300 million investment in a US$14 billion global private equity fund, with a complex master/feeder legal structure with multiple parallel partnerships. 
Canadian private registered pension fund in the sale of its US$83 million interests in a closed-end private equity fund, to a large US private equity fund.

Recognitions & Awards

Chambers Canada

Ranked, Investment Funds - Nationwide
Ranked, Corporate/Commercial: The Elite – B.C.

Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

Repeatedly recommended, Private Equity

 

Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Finance and M&A Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Finance and M&A lawyer

Lexpert Special Edition—Canada's Leading Health Sciences Lawyers

Recognized as a leading Health Sciences lawyer

Best Lawyers in Canada

Recognized for Corporate Law

Lexpert Zenith Award

Recognized as a leading woman lawyer in Canada

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • University of Sarajevo (Bosnia & Herzegovina), Civil Law Degree, 1993
  • University of British Columbia, LLB, 2002

Bar Admissions

  • British Columbia, 2003

Insights

The PE Briefing Q2 2025Blog

The PE Briefing: Q2 2025

June 26, 2025
Mia BacicSarah HarperJames D. Beeby
& 1 more
Canadas M and A Landscape and Deal Making Trends Q1 2024Blog

Canada's M&A Landscape and Deal Making Trends: Q1 2024

April 17, 2024
Kwang LimOsie UkwuomaMia Bacic
Kwang Lim, Osie Ukwuoma & Mia Bacic