Insolvency and Restructuring
Our firm’s insolvency and restructuring lawyers combine over thirty years of experience working in all manner of insolvency and restructuring matters, including:
Bankruptcies, both corporate and personal;
Companies Creditors Arrangement Act proceedings;
Winding-up and Restructuring Act proceedings;
Receiverships, both private and court-appointed;
Proposals to creditors, both informal and formal under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act;
Foreclosures;
The negotiation and implementation of forbearance agreements; and
Security placement, amendments, transfers, enforcements and realizations;
Our lawyers have acted for financial institutions, secured lenders, lien holders, unsecured creditors, companies and individuals in financial distress, landlords, shareholders, directors, investors, court appointed officers (such as Receivers, Trustees in bankruptcy and Monitors), and insolvency professionals. Such wide breadth of experience gives our team a unique understanding of the perspectives of all stakeholders in an insolvency and restructuring matter.
Our insolvency and restructuring team understands the importance of maximizing recoveries to creditors, while preserving companies and businesses. Accordingly, our lawyers strive to find consensual outcomes that maximize value for all parties. This is often done through negotiation, but also through the Court process. On a variety of insolvency and restructuring engagements, our lawyers have appeared before every Court level in Alberta, as well as the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the Courts of Queen’s Bench of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the Court of Appeal of Saskatchewan, and the Federal Court of Canada, and have represented clients before the Supreme Court of Canada.
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