Bio

Curtis Cusinato is one of Canada's top deal makers. He is a business-focused, trusted advisor in cross-border M&A, private equity and capital markets transactions. He finds workable solutions to complex matters and is relentless in serving his clients' strategic goals. He understands their industries thoroughly and is highly esteemed for getting deals done in Canada, the U.S. and globally. For more than 25 years, Curtis has been advising leading public and private companies and private equity groups. He leads multi-billion dollar M&A deals, going private transactions and corporate financings. He is a superb negotiator and represents clients on divestitures, leveraged and management buyouts, take-over bids, IPOs, restructurings and other strategic investments. His clients include multinational companies and some of the largest family offices in Canada. He has acted on multiple deals in multiple industries, giving him an unparalleled depth of diverse industry expertise. Curtis is consistently recognized as one of Canada's top deal makers in Canadian, U.S. and international legal publications. He is highly ranked in M&A, private equity, mid-market, corporate commercial and corporate finance in Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, the Lexpert/American Lawyer Media Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and other directories. He has been named as a leading lawyer in a broad array of industries, including finance, technology, energy, mining, health and agribusiness. Prior to joining Bennett Jones, Curtis served as the managing partner of the Toronto office at another Canadian national law firm—where he also served as a member of the executive committee and partnership board, as the former national head of the corporate group and as co-chair of the M&A and private equity group.