Overview
When financial pressures threaten stability, decisive, well-informed action makes all the difference. The Gardiner Roberts Insolvency & Restructuring Group helps clients navigate complexity with clarity, speed, and confidence, with an unwavering focus on preserving value and positioning for future success.
We have acted on some of Canada’s most significant restructurings, representing all sides of the table – banks and other lenders, debtors, commercial landlords, industry creditors, governments, purchasers, suppliers, trustees, and court-appointed officers. This breadth gives us a 360-degree understanding of stakeholder dynamics and allows us to craft solutions that lead to practical, sustainable results.
Our lawyers handle the full spectrum of domestic and cross-border insolvency matters, from CCAA proceedings and corporate reorganizations to loan forbearance and enforcement, bankruptcies, receiverships, and negotiated workouts. We not only handle insolvencies across the country, but we also have extensive cross-border experience, including in U.S. Chapter 7, 11, and 15 matters, ensuring seamless coordination across jurisdictions.
Working at the cutting edge of legal technology, and seamlessly with colleagues in litigation, banking, M&A, tax, pensions, employment, securities, and regulatory law, we deliver a fully integrated service that aligns legal strategy with business priorities.
Our services include:
- Mapping out your recovery strategy
- Forbearance agreements and creditor negotiations
- Enforcement of security and other creditor remedies
- Corporate reorganizations and restructurings
- CCAA and BIA proceedings
- Receiverships and bankruptcies
- Debtor in possession (DIP) and refinancing transactions
- Distressed asset acquisitions and divestitures
- Investigations and asset tracing
- Shareholder, stakeholder, and governance disputes
- Cross-border insolvency coordination
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Whether your goal is to stabilize a distressed business, protect your recovery, or capture opportunity amid disruption, Gardiner Roberts can help you move forward with confidence.