Stefan focuses his practice on corporate transactions, including cross-border mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity, investments, and corporate reorganizations. He advises clients in a variety of industries, including technology, life sciences, and financial services.
Prior to joining Mintz, Stefan was an attorney at a Toronto-based international law firm, where he worked on a broad range of transactional matters and business reorganizations. Earlier, he was a trainee lawyer (articling student) and summer associate at another national Canadian law firm. During his tenure with that firm, he handled corporate and litigation matters and worked in in-house compliance and capital markets departments during secondments to two Canadian multinational banks.
While earning his JD and MBA at the University of Toronto, Stefan served as a summer associate in the New York office of a global law firm and an intern in the corporate law department of a multinational insurance company.
In law school, Stefan served as a research assistant for the faculty. He also participated in the First Year Trial Advocacy Program and served as a volunteer caseworker with the Advocates for Injured Workers clinic. During a student exchange with Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, Stefan worked as an in-house legal researcher through a start-up clinic.
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