About

Prior to going in-house, Ricardo Trecroce practiced corporate law for 15 years with Fraser Milner Casgrain (now Dentons) in Toronto and for three years with Parlee McLaws in Edmonton, Alberta. In 2000 Trecroce joined Patheon, a provider of pharmaceutical manufacturing and development services, where he took on the role of general counsel, senior vice president for administration and corporate secretary. After six years in this role Trecroce was asked to take on the role of CEO for the company, in order to steer it through a period of stabilisation, refinancing and restructuring. Lasting over a year, his term in the position is characterised by an improvement in Patheon’s operating performance by 27% and effective management of the transition to a new CEO. Trecroce has been able to apply this commercial experience to his current role as vice president and general counsel for America and Asia at Magna International, a global automotive supplier, as he brought noticeable improvements to the performance of the legal function, led an array of M&A and other transactions and made significant contributions to strategic decision-making. In addition to these achievements, Trecroce has also won wide recognition in the Canadian in-house community through his victories in several legal cases.