About

Anthony Pagano brings an extensive, high-profile international career in private practice and a strong understanding of business fundamentals to his role of chief counsel for M&A at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). An in-house lawyer whose sole focus is on company mergers and acquisitions in Canada is rare, which requires Pagano to flexibly supervise the work of external counsel on key projects for the company. During his long-standing career as the global head and founding member of his unit since 1999, Pagano has managed and been involved in a number of complex and transformational M&A transactions, including the acquisition of Ally Financial’s Canadian operations and the US$4.5bn takeover of Citi National, which served as a major expansion for the bank into the US. In addition to his impressive transactional work, under Pagano’s leadership RBC’s M&A Law Practice Group was honored as the winner of the International Law Office Global Counsel Awards in the M&A category.