100 King St W, Suite 1600, 1 First Cdn Pl, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1997 (ON)
A partner in Gowling WLG’s Toronto office, E. Patrick Shea, KC, LSM, CS practises commercial law with a focus on restructuring and insolvency. Certified as a Specialist in Bankruptcy & Insolvency Law by the Law Society of Ontario (LSO), Patrick has acted for large and mid-sized corporations in the entertainment, retail, automotive, airline, food & beverage, pharma, and other sectors. He has also acted on numerous cross-border insolvency proceedings involving the recognition in Canada of insolvency proceedings. Patrick has advised the Government of Canada and governments in the Caribbean on the reform of their insolvency legislation. He is a past chair of the Ontario Bar Association's Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section, the Canadian Bar Association's Insolvency Section, the Inter-Pacific Bar Association's Insolvency Committee and the American Bankruptcy Institute’s International Committee. He served as chair of Ontario’s Business Law Modernization and Burden Reduction Council and appointed to the board of the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council. In 2015, Patrick was awarded the Law Society Medal, the LSO’s highest award. He has also been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers and two Minister of Veteran’s Affairs Commendations.
