Financial Reorganizations and Restructuring
We bring extensive business experience to any distress situation and offer a wide range of services to financial institutions and other creditors respecting the options that are available to deal with in the potential business failure of a customer.
We have decades of experience in restructuring and reorganization, assisting companies in restructuring obligations to secured lenders and other creditors. We assist our clients on renegotiating credit and developing proposals under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and plans of arrangement under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA).
Expertise
- Corporate reorganization, restructuring and dissolution
- advice including guidance on directors’ and shareholders’ responsibilities and liabilities
- advice on private and court-supervised reorganizations and restructurings
- cutting-edge experience in specialized fields such as e-commerce, intellectual property and environmental issues in the insolvency context
- structuring workouts and proposals to creditors, local and cross-border
- tax advice and planning
- Debtor-in-possession financing
- Financial services
- advising and representing lenders and borrowers on financings of all types, including
- cross-border and multi-currency loans
- structuring and implementing all types of financing, including asset-based lending and
- debtor-in-possession financing
- Forbearance/standstill arrangements
- Insolvency professional retainers
- Interim receivers and liquidators
- Personal property security issues
- Workouts