181 Bay St, Suite 1800, Brookfield Pl, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2011 (ON)
Partner and member of the Aird & Berlis Financial Services and Insolvency & Restructuring Groups. Divides his time between commercial restructuring matters and M&A and financing work. His insolvency and restructuring practice encompasses both the litigation and commercial aspects of turnarounds, reorganizations, liquidations, security enforcement, receiverships, and plans of arrangement in the context of formal and informal restructuring proceedings. The corporate and commercial lending transactions of his practice include asset-based, syndicated, secured, mezzanine, and subordinated debt, both domestic and cross-border. Advises secured and unsecured creditors, debtor-in-possession lenders, debtors, suppliers, boards of directors, chief restructuring officers, purchasers, receivers, interim receivers, Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) monitors and bankruptcy trustees. Regularly advises parties on issues relating to reorganizations under the CCAA, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) and the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA). Member of the Toronto Lawyers Association, the Turnaround Management Association and the Ireland–Canada Chamber of Commerce. Recognized in Lexpert and Legal Media Group's Rising Stars Expert Guide.