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Restructuring/Insolvency

Nationwide - Canada

6 Years Ranked

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Provided by Caroline Descours

Canada

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Caroline Descours is a partner in the Restructuring Group at Goodmans, which is consistently and widely recognized as Canada’s best and leading corporate restructuring practice.

Caroline’s practice focuses on corporate restructuring and commercial insolvency matters, including Canadian, transnational and cross-border matters. She has significant experience in corporate and insolvency restructurings, recapitalization transactions, acquisitions, financing transactions, and private equity and corporate matters. Her roles include acting as counsel for companies, secured and unsecured debtholders, purchasers, and court-appointed monitors and receivers, as well as advising boards of directors in respect of corporate and restructuring transactions and strategic alternatives. She also acts for private equity funds and investors in a broad range of transactions.

Career

In 2020, Caroline was honoured as one of Lexpert’s Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40. She has also been recognized as “consistently recommended” by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, as “highly regarded” by IFLR1000, and as a leading practitioner by Best Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Canada, and Chambers Global for restructuring and insolvency. She is also featured in the Lexpert Special Edition: Insolvency and Restructuring. Caroline is a member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada. She is also included in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law.

Professional Memberships

Caroline is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and Turnaround Management Association.

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Restructuring/Insolvency - Nationwide - Canada

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Caroline Descours is based in Toronto, where she regularly assists with CBCA proceedings and refinancing transactions.

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