Marko Trivun

Marko has advised:

• A financial modelling organization in connection with its US$70-million Series C financing.

• A major Canadian pension fund as an investor in the US$70-million Series C financing of a leading provider of financial data and analytics.

• An independent asset manager on its acquisition of a minority ownership stake in an independent Canadian wealth management company.

• Canada's largest financial technology in its acquisition of an innovative, AI-powered online ordering provider for restaurateurs.

• A global long-term investor in the US$250-million funding round of a Vancouver-based blockchain company.

• A Toronto-based B2B automotive trading platform in the completion of its US$10-million equity funding to continue global expansion

• A lead investor in the US$10-million equity funding of a Toronto-based B2B automotive trading platform

• A major Canadian pension fund as an investor in the US$500-million Series G financing of a San Francisco-based table management software company.

• A Japanese multinational company in its investment in a Canadian cleantech company that develops carbon dioxide removal (CDR) solutions for the concrete industry.

• A major Canadian pension fund, as one of the lead investors in the C$158-million Series E financing of a leading global provider of restaurant technology solutions

• A multinational professional services company in its acquisition of certain professional services assets from a leading financial services software company.

• A multinational professional services company in its investment a leading financial services software company's Series B financing.

• An AI-focused incubator in its minority investment in a Quebec-based startup developing a 3D interactive modeling software.

• A major Canadian bank in its C$2.585-billion acquisition of a wealth management platform for physicians.

• A syndicate of underwriters in a major Canadian bank's C$1.725-billion public offering of common shares.

• A major Canadian bank in its C$950-million acquisition of one of Canada's leading independent investment firms.

• A major Canadian bank in its acquisition of loan assets and in connection with its launch of an innovation banking platform.

Marko is a member of the Law Society of Ontario. He completed the Stanford Graduate School of Business Leading Change and Organizational Renewal Program, a strategic business program designed for promoting innovation, strategy and organizational leadership.

Marko is an active member of the community. He represents on a pro bono basis Aman Lara, an organization dedicated to helping evacuate vulnerable people from Afghanistan and Ukraine. He is a member of the board of directors of Cota, a not-for-profit, community-based organization that supports adults with mental health and cognitive challenges. He also spent six years as a member of the board of Mainstay Housing (now called Houselink & Mainstay), a non-profit agency which provides housing for mental health consumer-survivors, where he served a term as a member of its Housing Planning and Development Committee and chaired its Governance Committee. Marko also was a director on the board of the Institute of Competitiveness and Prosperity, an independent, not-for-profit organization founded by Professor Roger Martin that focused on improving public understanding of macro and microeconomic factors behind Ontario's economic progress.

• Co-author: Does Generative AI Need to Infringe Copyright to Create?
  Blakes Bulletin on Emerging Companies & Venture Capital, March 9, 2023.
• Co-author: Venture Capital Flowing to Canadian AgTech
  Blakes Bulletin on Emerging Companies & Venture Capital, September 13, 2022.

Admitted to the Ontario Bar – 2012
JD, Osgoode Hall Law School – 2011
BA (Hon.), University of Toronto – 2007