Timothy R. Dunn

Timothy R. Dunn

Toronto, ON recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2021
Blaney McMurtry LLP

44 Best Lawyers awards

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Awarded Practice Areas

Banking and Finance Law Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law

Biography

Tim is a partner in Blaney McMurtry's Business Restructuring and Insolvency group. His practice focuses on advising owner managed private corporations, together with traditional and non-traditional financial institutions, the accounting firms that provide services to these institutions, and their respective corporate and individual clients.

Over the past 30 years, Tim's practice has evolved from one that focused exclusively on insolvency law and the legal issues that arise in corporate debt restructuring, to one that includes providing strategic advice in connection with the ever-increasing challenges and risks faced by lenders, borrowers, and their financial advisors.

Tim is regularly called upon to provide trusted advice on all aspects of commercial insolvency, debt restructuring and crisis management. His clients include traditional and non-traditional lenders, borrowers, suppliers, landlords, trustees in bankruptcy, Court and privately-appointed receivers and interim receivers, court-appointed monitors, and guarantors of debt owed by corporations in financial distress.

Clients seek Tim out for his reputation in providing practical business and legal solutions, especially in crisis situations. By adopting a holistic approach rather than focusing only on the law, Tim enables clients to make timely, well-informed, and intelligent business decisions that achieve results and mitigate risk. He has become one of Canada’s “go-to” financial services advisors and one of a select few lawyers who are sought out by both the lender and debtor communities.

Tim is a frequent lecturer at professional institutes, legal associations, and banking and business community programs.

Tim is an instrument-rated private pilot, flying single engine land and sea planes. He is currently working toward a commercial pilot’s license.

Blaney McMurtry LLP

44 Best Lawyers awards

Blaney McMurtry LLP logo

Overview

  • English

  • Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, LLB, graduated 1991
  • University of Toronto, Bachelor of Arts (Political Science and Philosophy), graduated 1988

  • Ontario, 1993

  • American Bankruptcy Institute - Member
  • Canadian Insolvency Foundation - Member
  • Canadian Turnaround Management Association - Member
  • Credit Institute of Canada - Member
  • INSOL International - Member
  • English
  • Ontario, 1993
  • American Bankruptcy Institute - Member
  • Canadian Insolvency Foundation - Member
  • Canadian Turnaround Management Association - Member
  • Credit Institute of Canada - Member
  • INSOL International - Member
  • Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, LLB, graduated 1991
  • University of Toronto, Bachelor of Arts (Political Science and Philosophy), graduated 1988

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2026 for work in:
  • Banking and Finance Law
  • Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law

Additional Information

  • Practice and Key Industries
  • Asset-based lending
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency
  • Commercial receiverships
  • Cross-border and domestic transactions
  • Distressed M&A
  • Enforcement and debt collection
  • Financial reorganizations and restructuring
  • Financial services
  • Negotiating loans and security agreements
  • Project finance Reputational risk management
  • Risk and crisis management
  • Secured and unsecured transactions
  • Senior secured and unsecured lending
  • Sub-debt, mezzanine, and second lien lending
  • Syndicated and joint venture transactions

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