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CurrentCommercial insolvency and litigation lawyer, with extensive experience litigating complex, sophisticated matters and particular expertise in restructuring and insolvency law, including security enforcement, receivership, bankruptcy and court supervised restructuring processes.Expertise in conducting real time litigation involving insolvent enterprises, and advising clients on issues arising in large, demanding corporate reorganizations and insolvency cases.Smart, tenacious and efficient, a strong team player who gets the job done.Adept at quickly understanding complex legal and business issues and producing excellent results under pressure.Represents the interests of lenders, shareholders, debtors, receivers, trustees, and monitors in all types of insolvency proceedings both before the courts and in informal restructuring and settlement negotiations.Regularly appears as counsel before the civil courts in Ontario, and primarily the Commercial List, litigating a wide variety of commercial matters arising in corporate restructuring and insolvency cases.Conducts all aspects of commercial litigation and provides strategic advice to clients in a wide variety of cases, including oppression remedy proceedings, domestic and multi-jurisdictional corporate fraud, restructuring and commercial litigation cases, security enforcement and realization.Carriage of numerous cases on behalf of financial institutions and corporate clients arising out of corporate fraud and recovery of commercial indebtedness, including successfully litigating injunction motions, motions for summary judgment, and trials to enforce payment of promissory notes, guarantees, and mortgages, and successfully defending multi-million dollars claims for breach of trust, negligence, infringement of intellectual property rights, and equitable subordination.
