This program explores what lawyers need to know to properly advise clients in bankruptcy and insolvency matters.

Topics include:

– Restructuring and Insolvency Basics: Recognizing early warning signs of distress, informal workout options, and navigating the formal insolvency process

– Rehabilitating a Distressed Corporation: Restructuring options under the BIA, CCAA, and CBCA

– Consumer Insolvencies: Advising your client step by step

– Role of a Financial Advisor in Distressed Situations

– Insolvency Sales Transactions, Processes, and Auctions

– Roles and Responsibilities of Directors

This on-demand program was originally presented as an in-person program on March 15, 2023.

Chair

Kyle Kashuba, Torys LLP 

Presenters

Ryan Adlington, Deloitte Restructuring Inc. 

Vanessa Allen, MNP Ltd. 

Darren Crocker, Deloitte Restructuring Inc. 

Kyle Kawanami, Emery Jamieson LLP

Christopher Keliher, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP  

Jessie Mann, Torys LLP 

Jack Maslen, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP 

Afshan Naveed, Dentons Canada LLP 

Jeffrey Oliver, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP 

James W. Reid, Miller Thomson LLP

Charla Smith, Charla Smith & Company Ltd. 

Jill Strueby, Alvarez & Marsal 

Desmond West-Chow, Goth & Company Ltd. 

Mark Wong, PwC Canada