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Mario Lofranco

Mario Lofranco

Associate
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Biography

Mario is an associate in Baker McKenzie's North American Transactional Practice Group. He joined the Firm in 2022 as a summer student and completed his articles in 2024. During his summer and articling terms, he was seconded to the FedEx Corporation and Unilever Canada, respectively, where he worked on various privacy, corporate and commercial law matters.

Practice Focus

Mario maintains a general corporate law practice with a focus on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate governance and multijurisdictional corporate reorganizations, including pre-transaction restructurings, post-acquisition integrations, carve-outs and spin-offs. 

Representative Legal Matters

  • Advised Nors Group on its approximately CAD 150 million (EUR 100 million) acquisition of Great West Equipment.
  • Advised Safe Life, a Stockholm-based company with portfolio companies across Europe and North America, on several strategic business acquisitions.
  • Advised Nors Group with the acquisition of certain Volvo CE-related assets of Westcon Equipment.
  • Advised Epicor on its acquisition of Solenium Group and Visual SKUs for Product Information Management (PIM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) for the automotive aftermarket.
  • Advised Flexera on its Canadian acquisition of the NetApp’s Spot FinOps portfolio.
  • Advised Carpedia International Corp., a North American firm specializing in process and change management, on its sale to SGS Canada Inc.
  • Advised Mastercard International Incorporated with its 3% equity stake (approximately USD 300 million) investment in Corpay, Inc.’s cross-border B2B payments business.
  • Advised Rosebank Industries plc on the international aspects of its approximately GBP 1.14 billion (USD 1.55 billion) acquisition Electrical Components International, a US-based market leader in critical electrical distribution systems. 
  • Advised Axel Johnson International on its acquisition of Lam-é St-Pierre Group, a privately held Canadian company specializing in lifting and rigging solutions.

Admissions

  • Ontario (2024)

Education

  • Osgoode Hall Law School (J.D.) (2023)
  • Schulich School of Business (M.B.A.) (2023)
  • Queen's University (B.A. Philosophy, Honours) (2018)

Languages

  • English
  • Italian
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