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Restructuring/Insolvency

Canada

17 Years Ranked

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Provided by Brendan O'Neill

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Brendan O’Neill is a partner in the Restructuring Group, a head of the Restructuring Group, and a member of the Executive Committee at Goodmans. The Restructuring Group is consistently and widely recognized as Canada’s best and leading corporate restructuring practice.

Brendan has extensive experience in leading domestic, cross-border and transnational corporate restructuring transactions and refinancings, including CCAA and CBCA corporate restructurings, and other forms of cross-border restructurings, out-of-court restructurings and workouts, mass tort restructurings, strategic bankruptcy-based acquisitions, bankruptcy-based litigation and near-insolvency investing scenarios. Brendan regularly leads or co-leads the firm’s representation of debtor companies, secured and unsecured lenders, bondholders and creditors, official and unofficial creditors’ committees, key shareholders and leading private equity firms and other strategic investors focused on distressed situations.

Career

Brendan is recognized as an industry leader by Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, IFLR1000, the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, the Lexpert/American Lawyer Media Guide, Euromoney Legal Media Group’s Expert Guides, Who’s Who Legal Canada and Best Lawyers in Canada. He was selected by Lexpert as one of Canada’s “Leading Lawyers Under 40” in 2009.

Professional Memberships

Brendan is a frequent lecturer on domestic and cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters. Brendan has served on various committees for INSOL International and was Chair of the INSOL Toronto Seminar in 2014.

Brendan is an active member of the International Insolvency Institute, Insolvency Institute of Canada, Law Society of Ontario, INSOL International, American Bankruptcy Institute,

Turnaround Management Association, Ontario Bar Association, Insolvency Section.

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