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 articling term, Mario was seconded to Unilever Canada, where he worked on various 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, multijurisdictional corporate reorganizations, capital markets transactions and corporate governance.

Representative Legal Matters

  • Advised Nors Group on the 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.

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