Restructuring/Insolvency
Global Guide 2024 : Canada
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Recognized as one of Canada’s leading domestic and cross-border restructuring practices, the Blakes Restructuring & Insolvency group combines unmatched experience and depth to meet the immediate and critical needs of our clients with expert practitioners across Canada. Collaborating with our colleagues as needed in Financial Services, Capital Markets, Competition & Antitrust, Employment & Labour, Commercial Real Estate, Tax, Environmental and Intellectual Property, Blakes provides top-quality coordinated service and effective solutions to the unique and complex challenges clients face wherever the parties are located or the insolvency proceedings are commenced.
We represent all parties impacted by insolvencies and restructurings, including Canadian and U.S. banks and financial institutions, corporate debtors in domestic and cross-border insolvency proceedings, restructuring financial advisory firms that act as court officers, debtor-in-possession (DIP) lenders, and investors seeking to acquire assets and businesses in distressed circumstances.
We assist clients in a wide range of industries through workouts and restructurings (including under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA), cross-border recognition of Chapter 11 proceedings under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code as well as federal and provincial corporate restructuring statutes), DIP financing, security enforcement, distressed business acquisitions and post-restructuring issues.
Chambers Review
Blake, Cassels & Graydon maintains a well-established restructuring and insolvency department with standout lawyers in Toronto, Montréal, Calgary and Vancouver. The team has a particularly strong presence representing major banks both domestically and internationally. It is widely acknowledged for its impressive track record of assisting clients from the financial services, mining and natural resources sectors with large CCAA and cross-border Chapter 11 proceedings. The firm is well placed to advise lenders, receivers and troubled businesses, and fields additional expertise in litigation, which includes experience before the Supreme Court of Canada.
Work Highlights
- Blake, Cassels & Graydon counselled Pure Gold Mining on its CCAA protection filing.
Strengths
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"Blakes brings a really deep team and they are very collaborative."
"The group has very broad experience and they always offer practical solutions."
"Blakes' members have an exceptional ability to solve any problem efficiently."
"Blakes brings a really deep team and they are very collaborative."
"The group has very broad experience and they always offer practical solutions."
"Blakes' members have an exceptional ability to solve any problem efficiently."
Notable Practitioners
Toronto-based Pamela Huff heads the nationwide restructuring and insolvency team at Blakes. She acts on a broad array of insolvency matters involving companies in sectors such as tobacco, construction and retail.
"She is very respected in the industry. She is strategic, very well connected and mindful of business issues."
"Pam is practical and smart."
Head of Blakes' restructuring and insolvency group in Calgary, Kelly Bourassa centres her practice on the representation of banks and financial institutions and has notable experience advising lending syndicates. She also demonstrates strength assisting with insolvency matters in the oil and gas space.
"Kelly does great work on the complex files."
"She is an experienced lawyer who is highly organised and has a very good commercial sense."
Linc Rogers maintains an impressive practice which sees him represent court-appointed monitors as well as companies undergoing insolvency proceedings. He is based in Toronto.
"Linc is very thoughtful and efficient."
"He is an excellent practitioner who succinctly cuts to the heart of problems."
"He articulates issues very clearly and solves problems."
Vancouver-based Peter Rubin is commended for his assured handling of several prominent CCAA proceedings and counts a number of financial institutions among his clients.
"Peter is really solutions-oriented and collaborative."
"He is thoughtful, logical and commercial in his approach to complex matters."
Milly Chow has notable experience acting for financial institutions and lending syndicates on restructuring and insolvency mandates. She is based in Toronto.
"Milly is a solid practitioner who is a pleasure to work with."
"She is very technically strong."
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