Kenneth C Johnston

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Kenneth Johnston empathetically represents clients during their most challenging times, often stepping in when others have made insufficient progress. His focus is on helping salvage their business and investment goals. Clients have described him as "very confident, personable, connected and cost-effective. The complete package."

With an impressive three decades of experience in litigation, trial, and insolvency, clients choose to work with Mr. Johnston because they appreciate his ability to drive solutions in and out of courts across various industries, including financial services, energy, healthcare, and technology. His role often extends beyond specific practice areas into the multidisciplinary arena known as Special Situations. Clients engage Mr. Johnston to address their diverse business problems through negotiation or trial.

The work routinely involves complex litigation, mediation, arbitration, trial, bankruptcy, receivership, collateral and security enforcement, equity exchanges, refinancings, distressed financings, capital raises, and distressed M&A transactions. Invariably, the work touches on corporate governance considerations—with goals to either reduce or capitalize on fiduciary liability and to navigate stakeholder negotiations.

Mr. Johnston enjoys focusing on financial services, corporate governance, and dispute resolution, including class actions and insolvency—routinely advising financial services companies in disputes, regulatory compliance matters, and insolvency. He has a successful track record of resolving corporate governance disputes, with an emphasis on the energy industry. He has led clients for decades in successful endeavours to gain control of companies and critical energy assets in Asia, Europe, North America, Central America, and South America—including related offshore jurisdictions.

One client states Mr. Johnston's "main strength is battlefield vision. Whereas many lawyers may focus on one skirmish or the other, he can step back, take in the entire conflict, and figure out a way to move it forward."