Advising Clients in Financial Distress: Restructuring Tools to Preserve Value & Avoid Legal Landmine

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Jerry has been practicing in the areas of security enforcement and insolvency since his call to the bar in 1984. He has extensive experience representing corporate litigants at all Alberta Court levels. The majority of Jerry’s clients are institutional lenders, receivers, and trustees in bankruptcy, whom he represents in connection with the enforcement of security instruments and recovery of indebtedness. He acts on behalf of debtors, creditors (secured and unsecured), receivers, and monitors in corporate reorganizations and multi-jurisdictional insolvencies.

Gavin is a partner in the Halifax office of Cox & Palmer. His practice focuses on business law in the areas of organization and financing, business restructuring, insolvency, and banking. Gavin has represented individuals, companies, and other organizations from start-up financing to restructuring and sale. He has also advised financial institutions, insolvency professionals and individuals involved in business restructuring, contested and uncontested insolvency proceedings before the trial and appeals courts of Nova Scotia, including as local representative counsel to affected users of the Quadriga CX cryptocurrency exchange.

Chris is recognized as a leading insolvency lawyer in British Columbia. He is able to calm the waters during these troubled times and develop strategies that give critical breathing room to allow constructive dialogue between a company and its stakeholders with a view to moving towards a common restructuring goal. He is also one of the leading fraud and asset recovery lawyers in western Canada. He has been retained as counsel in many large international complex fraud cases and is one of only four designated Canadian members of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) FraudNet. He has over 25 years of experience in the investigation of fraud, the tracing and recovering of proceeds of fraud worldwide, and the implementation of recovery strategies retaining foreign lawyers, forensic accountants and other experts.

Aryo is a Partner in the Restructuring & Insolvency group, widely recognized as one of Canada's leading restructuring practices. He is a trusted advisor to clients involved in some of Canada's most complex and high-profile restructurings, distressed acquisitions, and insolvency litigation. Aryo brings a strategic, solutions-focused approach to guiding clients through financial distress and turnaround situations. Recognized by clients as "brilliant, highly responsive, and displaying both technical mastery and strategic insight at every step", Aryo is sought after by financial institutions, distressed investors, debtors, court officers, and other stakeholders navigating insolvency challenges and pursuing distressed opportunities. For over a decade, he has acted as counsel on major domestic and cross-border restructurings, earning a reputation for combining technical excellence with practical, business-minded advice. Beyond client work, Aryo is a thought leader, frequently writing and speaking in Canada and internationally on emerging trends in restructuring and insolvency law.