Mario Nigro

Mario Nigro

Toronto, ON recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2026
Stikeman Elliott LLP

216 Best Lawyers awards

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Awarded Practice Areas

Corporate Law Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law Mergers and Acquisitions Law

Biography

Mario Nigro is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity & Venture Capital Groups and a member of the firm’s Partnership Board. 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.

Stikeman Elliott LLP

216 Best Lawyers awards

Stikeman Elliott LLP logo

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Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2026 for work in:
  • Corporate Law
  • Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law

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