199 Bay St, Suite 5300, Commerce Court West, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1983 (ON)
David Byers is senior counsel and former co-chair of the national litigation and dispute resolution group. Byers is highly experienced in complex commercial litigation, including product liability, securities, insolvency, and insurance, as well as in domestic and international arbitration. Byers has extensive advocacy experience appearing before both the trial and appellate levels of courts in Ontario. His representations reflect a practice of extraordinary depth and scope, including acting for companies and their management in a broad range of industries, including manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, financial services, and tobacco. He has also acted for both lenders and debtors in several court-supervised restructurings.
On February 13, 2007, Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund I, Ltd. and Harbinger Capital Partners Special Situations Fund, L.P. through their indirect wholly owned subsidiary HCP Acquisition Inc. (together, Harbinger) acquired all of the outstanding trust units of Calpine Power Income Fund (the fund) it did not already own at a price of $13.00 per trust unit for total consideration of approximately $760 million.
