Find Lawyers in Canada for Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law

Kendall Andersen is a partner in the Vancouver office of BLG, and practises in the areas of commercial lending, bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring. Ken regularly acts for debtors, creditors, trustees and monitors in a broad range of insolvency, realization and restructuring proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. He also acts for financial institutions, borrowers and private lenders in a wide variety of secured lending tran...

Background: Partner in the Firm and Head of the Robertson Stromberg Insolvency & Restructuring Group. Practice Areas: Insolvency & Restructuring, Commercial Realization, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law and Municipal Law. Professional Activity : Advises lenders, debtors and insolvency practioners on insolvency and restructuring matters and on commercial realization. Advises business on dispute resolution and litigation matters. Advises insurers on coverage issues, and advises muni...

Alexander Bayus is a partner in our Litigation and Dispute Resolution group at the Montréal office. He specializes in insolvency and financial restructuring. In the course of his career, Alexander has advised numerous clients, including companies, financial institutions and other stakeholders, in connection with various complex national and international financial restructuring, commercial litigation and insolvency matters. Alexander has argued cases before the Quebec Superior Court an...

A partner at Chaitons LLP, George brings 25 years of experience in the areas of corporate restructurings, bankruptcy and insolvency, and commercial litigation. He also has extensive experience in litigation proceedings involving allegations of commercial fraud and other improprieties. George represents and advises a broad range of lenders, bondholders, indenture trustees and other stakeholders in proceedings commenced under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, Companies’ Creditors Arrange...

Darren R. Bieganek, QC is the leader of the insolvency & restructuring practice group at Duncan Craig LLP. He has been retained to act for debtors, creditors, trustees, receivers and monitors in some of the largest, most complex insolvencies in Northern Alberta. Darren also acts as counsel on complex corporate and commercial litigation matters including shareholder disputes, complex creditor remedy actions, priority disputes and construction litigation. Darren serves as the leader of the ...

David Byers is a partner and Co-Chair of the National Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. He was formerly Head of the Litigation Group in the Toronto office for over 20 years. David is highly experienced in complex commercial litigation, including product liability, securities, insolvency and insurance, as well as in domestic and international arbitration. David has extensive advocacy experience appearing before both the Trial and Appellate levels of courts in Ontario. His representati...

Jeff Carhart is an insolvency and bankruptcy lawyer with extensive experience in lending, securitizations, loan syndications, the enforcement of security over real and personal property, corporate reorganizations, receiverships, and bankruptcies. Jeff’s clients include banks, trust and insurance companies, asset-based lenders, business corporations, commercial landlords, and receivers and trustees in bankruptcy. Jeff appears frequently in The Ontario Superior Court and Court of Appeal o...

A partner of Chaitons LLP, Harvey practices in the areas of bankruptcy and insolvency with particular emphasis on receiverships and corporate restructurings, including insolvency litigation. He has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada to argue cases on diverse issues arising in insolvency matters under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and the Personal Property Security Act. Harvey has extensive experien...

Dylan Chochla is a partner in the Toronto Insolvency and Restructuring group. His practice focuses on corporate bankruptcy, insolvency and restructurings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, and under provincial and federal corporate statutes. He regularly represents clients in court and has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of British Columbia. Dylan is involved in a wide vari...

Evan Cobb’s practice covers all aspects of corporate and commercial law, with a particular focus on bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring. Mr. Cobb represents clients in both informal restructuring matters as well as proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. He regularly acts for debtors, creditors and court-appointed officers in both domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters.

Arnold Cohen’s practice includes financing and insolvency and restructuring. His financing practice focuses on asset-based lending (both Canadian and cross-border transactions), in which he represents leading US and Canadian asset-based lenders and factors. Mr. Cohen also regularly represents lenders and corporate borrowers in the financing of real estate, receivables and equipment, as well as acquisition, project, structured and traditional bank financings, all on both a syndicated and...

Eugene Czolij is a partner. He handles cases involving the insolvency of major corporations with international implications and deals with creditors and debtors rights, corporate and commercial litigation, oppression remedies and class action suits. He represents clients before the Supreme Court of Canada, all court levels in Québec, and arbitration and administrative tribunals. He has also made various submissions to parliamentary committees.

Alex Dobrota is a partner at Woods LLP whose practice focuses on complex commercial cases, cross-border disputes, insolvency matters (domestic and international) and international arbitration. He has extensive experience pleading before all levels of Quebec courts and participating in commercial arbitrations with strategic and/or reputational risks for Canadian and foreign companies in the province of Quebec. He has successfully represented clients in the context of litigations arising from s...

Michael is a partner with Fillmore Riley LLP and practises mainly in the areas of bankruptcy, insolvency, pensions, commercial litigation, commercial financing transactions, and commercial lending.

Marc Duchesne is the National Co-Chair of the Insolvency and Restructuring Group at BLG. His areas of expertise include Banking Law, Insolvency and Restructuring and Commercial Litigation. He represents financial and lending institutions, creditors (secured or unsecured), Receivers, Monitors, Trustees, note holders as well as debtors in insolvency matters. He also represents insurance companies more particularly in surety matters.

Marc is one of the firm's Managing Partners and a member of Wickwire Holm's Municipal, Environmental, Litigation, and Bankruptcy / Insolvency services areas. Marc has a significant municipal law practice advising municipal units on matters as diverse as governance, councillor conduct, by-laws, land use planning, real estate, tax sales, expropriation, risk avoidance, facility and asset management and procurement. Drawing on his background as a Professional Engineer and former environmental con...

John is a founding partner of TGF and has a broad practice in complex commercial litigation with significant experience in insolvency and restructuring litigation. John has been lauded as an "excellent commercial litigator" and "a very credible, no-nonsense litigator who is extremely effective in court" in Chambers Global . John is consistently recognized as one of Canada’s top lawyers in the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, as a leading lawyer for US/...

Jean Fontaine is a partner and member of the Litigation & Dispute Resolution and Restructuring & Insolvency Groups. His practice focuses principally on the areas of restructuring & insolvency, and shareholders disputes. Jean has been involved in numerous cases where he either acted for the Defense or for the Plaintiff. Among other clients, he represents financial institutions, trustees and public companies. He is a member of the Montréal office’s Management Committee....

Jean-Yves Fortin is a partner in the Montréal office and is a member of the firm’s Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Group. Jean-Yves is a leader in the field of insolvency and restructuring law and advises clients on matters related to corporate reorganizations, foreclosures, bankruptcy, receiverships and loan workout situations. His clients include both debtors and lenders in a variety of insolvency situations. He has been involved in most of the major workouts in inso...

A fine strategist, Bertrand Giroux is known for his technical efficiency and his tremendous talent as a jurist. he is one of the founding members of BCF. With a career spanning more than thirty years, he specialises in insolvency and commercial litigation, and is recognized by his peers for his intelligence, diplomacy and dexterity when tackling complicated matters or in high pressure situations. Bertrand co-leads BCF’s Restructuring and Insolvency group. He advises companies on major o...

Howard Gorman practises primarily in the areas of insolvency and restructuring and civil litigation. His practice has developed with emphasis on workout and recovery, insolvency, oil and gas and commercial disputes. Mr. Gorman has acted on behalf of numerous secured and unsecured creditors, insolvent or financially challenged corporations and individuals and insolvency practitioners in their capacity as receivers, trustees and monitors. His practice has resulted in numerous reported appearanc...

Matthew Gottlieb practises business litigation including corporate and commercial disputes, insolvency and restructuring and fraud and securities litigation. Matt’s extensive track record of success in complex, high-stakes disputes explains why he has been recognized as one of Canada’s top litigation lawyers. He has significant expertise in trials, applications, tribunals and arbitrations and regularly appears at all levels of court in Ontario and other provinces, the Federal Cour...

Joel is a senior lawyer in the Saskatoon office with expertise in the areas of commercial litigation and insolvency. He was Counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada in a successful challenge to the scope of Revenue Canada’s deemed trust powers. First Vancouver Finance v. Canada (Minister of National Revenue M.N.R.) [2002] 2 S.C.R. 720 " data-collapse-text=" Joel was named Commission Counsel to the Commission of Inquiry Into Matters Relating to the Death of Neil Stonechild, held in 200...

Lisa Hiebert is a Partner in BLG’s Vancouver office. Lisa works with a wide range of clients handling all aspects of commercial insolvencies, formal and informal restructurings and enforcement and financial services related litigation. Lisa has been involved in a number of significant insolvency files advising and representing insolvency professionals, challenged companies, lenders, directors and offers and other stakeholders. She has been selected by peers for inclusion in the 2022 edi...

Tim is a Partner within the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Group and the firm's co-managing partner. Tim represents creditors and receivers in insolvency, bankruptcy and private and court-appointed receivership situations. He represents trustees in complex insolvencies and bankruptcies, monitors and other stakeholders in CCAA proceedings, as well as major financial institutions in work out and insolvency situations. Tim appears at all levels of court dealing with insolvency matters ...

I have been providing legal counsel to creditors, debtors, receivers, trustees, monitors and other stakeholders in the restructuring process since 1985 when I had the good fortune to junior to Keith G. Turner QC and Robert A. Dewar QC as counsel to CDIC on the liquidation of the Northland Bank. In the early years I was responsible for enforcement actions and priority disputes on behalf of various financial institutions. Subsequently, I've been requested to take on more engagements on behalf o...

Kibben Jackson is a recognized corporate/commercial litigator in the Vancouver office who specializes in insolvency. He is highly sought after for his experience in corporate restructurings, secured creditor realization and acting for court’s officers in all manner of insolvency processes. Given his depth of expertise, clients appreciate Kibben's ability to guide them in the face of evolving insolvency legislation and judicial developments. Canada’s largest financial institutions ...

Rebecca practises in the area of bankruptcy and insolvency. She has experience in receiverships, security enforcement, debt collection, creditors' rights, debtor protection and forbearance agreements and has represented lenders, debtors, receivers, trustees, inspectors, court-appointed monitors and DIP financiers in regional, national and cross-border insolvencies. Rebecca is the recipient of a TMA Toronto “Women of Excellence” award for Emerging Talent (2018) and a Lexpert Rising...

Sherry Kettle practises in the areas of insolvency law, commercial debt recovery, commercial litigation, and environmental litigation. Sherry represents individuals and businesses including financial institutions, receivers, bankruptcy trustees, and secured creditors in insolvency matters and debt recovery. She also handles commercial litigation matters, including contractual disputes and injunctive relief. In addition, Sherry’s interest and experience in environmental matters includes ...

Maria Konyukhova is a partner in the Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. She exclusively practices in the area of insolvency law, representing debtors, court appointed monitors, court officers, secured lenders and purchasers. She frequently appears in Commercial List matters before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal, focusing on Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act proceedings, court-appointed receiverships and bankruptcies. Maria has also appeared before the...

Josef is partner and member of BLG's Commercial Litigation Group and a senior member of the Insolvency & Restructuring Group in Calgary. He has practised for more than 40 years in the areas of insolvency & restructuring, commercial litigation, and international arbitration. Josef has also been involved in over 400 trials and arbitrations and has extensive experience arguing matters on appeal. He has acted in numerous insolvency and restructuring proceedings, including numerous cross-b...

Michel La Roche is a senior commercial lawyer with many years of experience. Michel is the National leader of Miller Thomson’s Insolvency and Restructuring group. He has developed a particular expertise in restructuring, financing, winding-up, bankruptcy and commercial fraud matters, and regularly works on major asset purchases and sale transactions involving corporations in the real estate, construction, manufacturing, distribution and service industries. His clientele includes financi...

Jean Legault is a partner in the Litigation group in the commercial litigation, banking, and insolvency sector and a member of the board of directors of the firm. With more than 23 years’ experience in commercial litigation, he specializes in banking law and insolvency. Listed in the 2017 edition of The Best lawyers in Canada, he primarily advises financial institutions, institutional investors, and trustees in bankruptcy in restructuring and insolvency cases. In these cases, Mr. Legaul...

David Lemieux practises corporate financing and restructuring. He regularly represents lending syndicates, borrowers and investors in the areas of project financing, public and private takeover bids, asset acquisitions, monetization, securitization, structured finance and debt restructuring, whether the financing is Canadian, cross-border or foreign. In this capacity, he organizes and leads teams of lawyers to close these transactions. He is involved in negotiating, preparing and finalizing a...

Mathieu Lévesque is a Partner in BLG’s Montréal office. Mathieu is a trusted adviser to leading financial institutions in the Canadian market. He focuses his practice on banking litigation, class actions, bankruptcy and insolvency and financial restructuring. Mathieu advises financial institutions, through their legal and special accounts management groups, as well as trustees and accounting firms on a wide array of issues. He also represents banks in files involving risk ...

Serge Levy is a partner in the Banking & Finance Group. His practice is focused on banking law, corporate finance, financial services and commercial law. He is routinely involved in high-profile, sophisticated debt financing transactions representing corporate borrowers and financial institutions alike, on both a secured and unsecured basis. Serge has acquired a wealth of experience in the area of cross-border leveraged finance transactions with a focus on traditional (cash flow) as well ...

Alex MacFarlane is a partner in the firm’s Toronto office and serves as the office group leader of the Restructuring and Insolvency Practice Group. Alex specializes in complex cross-border restructuring and insolvencies. He routinely provides restructuring, insolvency and litigation advice to a wide array of clients including Chapter 11 debtors, directors and officers, financial institutions, court-appointed monitors and receivers, and many other stakeholders including creditor committe...

Daphne MacKenzie is a partner in and former Head of the Banking & Finance Group and serves on the firm’s Partnership Board. Her practice focuses on banking, project finance, restructurings, insolvency and public debt securities. Daphne acts for financial institutions and borrowers in cross-border banking and project finance transactions, and for creditors, debtors, receivers and monitors in commercial insolvencies and restructurings. She acts for private equity funds in connection w...

Claude Marchand is a litigation lawyer who has extensive experience in all aspects of the law relating to insolvency and corporate restructuring. He acts in large corporate restructuring files for companies experiencing financial difficulties. He also acts as an advisor to secured creditors in insolvency files and for the realization of security. Mr. Marchand regularly appears before all the courts of Quebec.

Guy P. Martel is a partner at Stikeman Elliott since 2002. He practices in the areas of corporate law, restructuring, distressed M&A, banking and private equity law. Guy specializes in corporate finance, reorganizations and restructuring with a strong focus on cross-border and international transactions. He has provided strategic advice in a large number of large-scale financings, re-financings, turn-arounds, restructurings, acquisitions and other transactions across many different indust...

Guillaume Michaud practises in the areas of insolvency and corporate restructuring and in connection with insolvency-related transactions and litigation. Guillaume represents and protects the interests of different stakeholders during corporate restructuring, distressed M&A, realization of assets or bankruptcies. The clientele he represents includes insolvent companies, trustees/monitors and receivers, purchasers and investers in a distressed M&A context, creditors, shareholders and d...

Practice D.J. is a partner in the restructuring and litigation firm Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP and has represented a wide variety of stakeholders in complex restructurings and insolvency litigation for the past 25 years. She is known for having a deep understanding of the insolvency framework, both domestic and international, and for applying strategic skills to achieve creative outcomes for clients. Representative mandates include acting as lead Canadian insolvency counsel to the UK Pension...