LAWYER PROFILE
Ryan Laity

Ryan Laity

Canada 2026

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Provided by Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Canada

Practice Areas

Financial Services

Corporate Finance

Lending & Financing

Banking & Financial Services

Insolvency & Restructuring

Corporate Commercial

Career

Ryan’s primary practice areas are debt financing, restructuring, and insolvency.

He regularly works with debtors, creditors and court officers on various insolvency mandates. Ryan helps debtors seek and obtain creditor protection, assists creditors with enforcing loans or realize on security, and helps clients maximize values and preserve options in times of financial distress.

Ryan advises clients on bankruptcies, receiverships, formal and informal debt restructurings (including under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act), commercial foreclosures, and realizations under the Personal Property Security Act.

He works with creditors and borrowers on debt-financing and other secured transactions, including leveraged acquisition financing, real estate financing, asset-based lending, distress/turnaround financing, note issuances, securitized debt, and multi-jurisdictional financings.

Professional Memberships

Executive Member-At-Large, Vancouver Bar Association

Secretary, Canadian Bar Association, Insolvency Subsection (BC)

Past-Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary, Canadian Bar Association, Banking Subsection (BC)

Personal

Director (Secretary), BC Lupus Society

Volunteer Supervisor, UBC ID Support Clinic (assisting Downtown Eastside residents obtain government-issued photo ID)

Member, Greater Vancouver Board of Trade

Education

Simon Fraser University

BA

2010

Osgoode Hall Law School

JD

2013

Chambers Review

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Chambers Canada Guide

Restructuring/Insolvency - Nationwide - Canada

Up-and-coming Individual
Up and Coming

Individual Editorial

Vancouver-based Ryan Laity is a growing talent in the restructuring and insolvency market.

Strengths

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  • He's a strong advocate and advisor.

    Restructuring/InsolvencyChambers Canada Guide
  • Ryan is quick, responsive and able to manager multiple complex matters.

    Restructuring/InsolvencyChambers Canada Guide

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Nationwide - Canada

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