Insolvency & Restructuring
We assist in insolvency related negotiations and proceedings, and assess and represent the interests of our clients in hearings. Our lawyers help clients interested in purchasing assets out of receiverships and estates and understand the risks and benefits of such purchases. We also assist them to structure transactions and manage the insolvency process to gain a competitive advantage. Our clients often have complex banking insolvency and creditors rights problems that require a multidisciplinary legal response. In such cases we draw on the strengths of lawyers in our other practice groups, such as oil and gas, securities, tax, real estate and litigation, to ensure that the necessary expertise is available to clients. Lawyers in our practice group have expertise in public and private domestic and international insolvencies, including experience with respect to Canada/US cross-border issues.Our expertise includes:
- Proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada)
- Proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada)
- Cross-border insolvency matters, including joint Canadian and U.S. proceedings
- Creditor rights enforcement and protection
- Debtor restructuring
- Receiverships
- Court-ordered investigations