Tushara Weerasooriya

Tushara Weerasooriya is a partner in the firm’s restructuring and insolvency group. Her practice is focused on the transactional aspects of reorganizations under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, receiverships, workouts, and distressed M&A transactions. She acts for a wide range of clients, including debtors, secured lenders, hedge funds, private equity firms, purchasers, and court officers. She has advised on numerous high-profile and complex domestic, cross-border, and international restructuring proceedings. An experienced deal lawyer, she also frequently represents private equity firms and financial institutions in a variety of financing transactions, including secured lending, sponsored finance, and debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing. In 2022, she became the secretary for the insolvency section of the International Bar Association. A dedicated promoter of diversity initiatives both inside and outside the firm, she chairs McMillan LLP’s equity, diversity and inclusion council. She is also a past director of the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers and the Ontario chapter of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. She is a member of the firm’s board of partners and chairs the firm’s strategic planning committee.