Mario Paura

First Year of Call
Ontario, 1994

Areas of Practice
Real Estate

Description
Mario Paura is Head of the Toronto office’s Real Estate Group and Co-Head of the National Real Estate Group. He is an active member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group, co-leader of the Retail Group, and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Mario has over 25 years of experience focused primarily in the areas of commercial real estate, financing, M&A and commercial leasing.

Mario’s diverse and sophisticated real estate practice includes all aspects involving the purchase, sale, financing and development of asset classes including retail and commercial, industrial and office, multi-residential, hospitality, seniors’ housing, entertainment properties, and privatization of REITs

In his banking practice, Mario has acted for both borrowers and lenders in domestic and international, secured and unsecured financings. In connection with his mergers and acquisitions practice, Mario regularly represents a variety of clients with portfolios that span North America in all aspects of real estate investment. He effectively provides clients with customized and practical advice on purchases and divestitures of businesses by way of share and asset purchases, partnerships and joint ventures. Clients rely on Mario’s significant experience to help them maximize value and increase management efficiency.

Mario is consistently recognized as a leading lawyer by the legal industry’s most prominent directories including Chambers, Best Lawyers and Lexpert.

Professional Activities
Mario’s many industry-related certifications and regular involvement in real estate associations help keep his clients up-to-date on the latest developments and give them an edge in the real estate industry. He is one of few Canadians that has been admitted as a Fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys (ACMA), including being a member of the College’s Board of Regents, Provincial Chair for Ontario, and a member of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee for the College, of which he was the former Co-Chair.

He is an officer of the Real Estate Section of the International Bar Association (IBA). Mario is a member of the Real Property Sections of both the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and the American Bar Association (ABA), as well as the International Council of Shopping Centers, and the Purchase and Sale Committee within the ABA’s Commercial Transactions Group.

Mario is the Board Chair of Mackenzie Health Foundation’s Board of Directors.

Mario is a Director of the CIBPA Education Foundation and is a past President and former CEO of the Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association (CIBPA).

Background
Mario is fluent in Italian.