Ryan Laity

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