Mario Lofranco
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
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Advised Rosebank Industries plc on the non-US aspects of its approximately USD 1.9 billion acquisition of Electrical Components International.
- Advised Mastercard on its 3% equity stake, representing an approximately USD 300 million investment, in Corpay’s cross-border B2B payments business.
- Advised Nors Group on its approximately CAD 150 million acquisition of Great West Equipment, a major dealer of construction and forestry equipment in Canada.
- Advised GrainCorp and Zen-Noh Grain Corporation on the sale of GrainsConnect Canada to Parrish & Heimbecker, Limited.
- Advised Safe Life, a Stockholm-based provider of life-saving solutions with portfolio companies across Europe and North America, on several strategic business acquisitions.
- Advised Epicor on its acquisition of Solenium Group and Visual SKUs, providers of product information management and digital asset management solutions for the automotive aftermarket.
- Advised Carpedia International, a North American firm specializing in process and change management, on its sale to SGS.
- Advised Axel Johnson International on its acquisition of Lam-é St-Pierre Group, a privately held Canadian company specializing in lifting and rigging solutions.
- Advised Accenture on the acquisition and integration of Eclipse Automation, a provider of customized manufacturing automation and robotics solutions.
- Advised Accenture on the Canadian aspects of its acquisition of Ascendient Learning.
- Advised Addnode Group on its acquisition of SolidCAD, one of Canada’s largest Autodesk Platinum Partners.
- Advised Guidewire on its acquisition of ProNavigator, a knowledge management platform purpose-built for the property and casualty insurance industry.
- Advised the shareholders of Montanhydraulik Group on the Canadian aspects of the sale of their stake to One Equity Partners.
- Advised Nors Group on its acquisition of certain Volvo CE-related assets of Westcon Equipment.
Carve-Outs, Spin-Offs & Post-Acquisition Integration
- Advised Baker Hughes on the Canadian aspects of the USD 1.15 billion sale of its Precision Sensing and Instrumentation business to Crane Company.
- Advised BMC Software on the Canadian aspects of its global separation into two independent companies, BMC and BMC Helix.
- Advised Western Digital on the Canadian aspects of its global spin-off of Sandisk Corporation, its flash division, from its hard drive division.
- Advised Reckitt Benckiser Group plc on the Canadian aspects of the carve-out of its Essential Home business to Advent International.
- Advised Nielsen on the Canadian aspects of the carve-out sale of its marketing mix modeling business to Circana.
- Advised S&P Global Inc., one of the world’s leading providers of data, analytics, benchmarks, and market intelligence, on the Canadian aspects of the global separation of its Mobility business into Mobility Global Inc.
- Advised Flexera on the Canadian aspects of its acquisition of NetApp’s Spot FinOps portfolio.
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
Baker & McKenzie LLP, an Ontario limited liability partnership, is a member of Baker & McKenzie International.