Arie van Wijngaarden maintains a general corporate law practice that involves advising on public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, corporate finance (debt and equity), as well as corporate reorganizations and governance matters.
Arie holds a combined JD/MBA degree from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Rotman School of Management. He previously graduated summa cum laude with an Honours BA in Economics from York University, where he received the Dean's Award for Academic Excellence for placing first amongst 23,000 Liberal Arts students. Prior to law school Arie worked as a marketing consultant for IBM, focusing primarily on hardware and services.
Arie was called to the Ontario Bar in 2020 and is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and Ontario Bar Association.