Curtis Cusinato, Stikeman Elliott LLP
Phone: (416) 869-5221 E-Mail: ccusinato@stikeman.com

Curtis Cusinato is a partner practising corporate and securities law with an emphasis on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and divestitures, leveraged and management buyouts and private equity transactions. His clients include Canadian, U.S. and foreign public, private and multinational companies representing a broad range of industries, investment and merchant banks, private equity firms, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds. He is frequently involved in transactions having an international aspect and has experience in a variety of commercial and corporate finance matters, including public offerings, restructurings, reorganizations, joint ventures, and debt and equity financings. He is recognized in the Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, IFLR1000’s The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms as a leading lawyer in M&A, and was named one of Canada’s top 40 lawyers under 40 by Lexpert® in 2006. He is co-chair of the Toronto M&A/Private Equity Group and serves on the Toronto Management Committee. He regularly writes and speaks on various corporate law topics and most recently co-authored “M&A Trends: 11 for ‘11”. Ontario Bar (1993); Michigan Bar (1991).