Frank P. Arnone

Partner

 | Toronto

Frank Arnone is a partner in the Business Law Group at Cassels and serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Private Equity Group. Frank’s practice emphasizes domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance for a wide variety of issuer, underwriter and private equity clients. Frank offers extensive experience working on complex transactions in a wide range of industry sectors. He also provides ongoing advice on securities law, stock exchange compliance and corporate governance matters. Frank has written extensively on a wide variety of private equity, corporate finance and securities topics including corporate governance, and was a contributing editor of Federated Press’ Corporate Financing Journal.

Examples of Frank’s recent transactions are available under Representative Work.

Frank is currently a member of the Chairman’s Expert Advisory Board of CloudMD Software. The multi-disciplinary board was created to guide CloudMD’s global growth initiatives. Frank was previously a Vice-Chair and member of the Board of Directors and Nominating & Governance Committee of the Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy. He also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Muskoka Algonquin Healthcare, Chair of the Governance Committee and a member of the Quality & Patient Safety Committee. Prior to joining Cassels, Frank was a partner at another national firm where he headed the Securities Group and the Private Equity Group.

  • Best Lawyers in Canada (Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity, Securities)
  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Corporate Mid-Market, Private Equity)
  • IFLR1000 (Private Equity)
  • Lexpert Special Edition, Finance and M&A
  • Who’s Who Legal: Canada (M&A)
  • Who’s Who Legal: Mergers & Acquisitions
  • LL.B., Western University, 1988
  • B.Comm., Queen’s University, 1984
  • Ontario, 1990
  • CloudMD Software & Services Inc., Expert Advisory Board, Member