Lawyer Profile
Mario Nigro
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Mario Nigro is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity & Venture Capital Groups. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, financings and complex corporate reorganizations, and general business law. Mario has extensive experience working with private equity firms, search funds, independent sponsors, and venture capital firms on sophisticated transactions including acquisitions and dispositions. He has also worked on a variety of Canadian private equity fund transactions including buyouts, leveraged buyouts, and secondaries, for leading private equity firms.
Mario also routinely advises owner operators who are looking at selling their businesses. He has worked with both entrepreneurs looking to sell a minority interest to grow their businesses and owners looking for a complete exit. Mario has significant experience across all industries and has represented some of the leading food, retail, services, technology, and manufacturing businesses in Canada including a leading provider of outsourced office and workplace solutions. He works with a number of fast-growing technology companies through their acquisitions, dispositions, financings and growth capital transactions.
Mario is the host of Stikeman Elliott's " Views from the Market: Midmarket M&A and Private Equity " podcast.
Mario is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and a member of the Toronto chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. Mario is also a member of the Ontario Bar Association and Canadian Bar Association.
Prior to joining Stikeman Elliott, Mario was a partner at another major Canadian law firm where he was a member of the Corporate & Commercial, Mergers & Acquisitions and Energy Groups.
Mario speaks Italian and works with a variety of Italian clients seeking to do business in Canada. He is also a volunteer board member of the Italian Chamber of Commerce of Ontario.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2002 (ON)