Jocelyn Perreault > McCarthy Tétrault > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile
McCarthy Tétrault Offices
66 Wellington Street West
Suite 5300, TD Bank Tower Box 48
Toronto ON M5K 1E6
Canada
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Jocelyn Perreault
Position
His practice consists of advising clients on insolvency or potential insolvency or reorganization matters, and representing them in informal workouts, formal restructurings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act or other statutes, receiverships or bankruptcies, or as part of commercial or litigation matters involving insolvency questions. He has represented various parties in such matters: debtor companies, monitors, trustees, receivers, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, creditor groups, purchasers and investors. He has appeared in front of first instance and appellate courts in Quebec and other Canadian provinces and of the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as in France as part of a French insolvency proceeding involving a Canadian client. He has also been involved in special mandates for the World Bank consisting of the review of insolvency and creditors’ rights regimes in foreign jurisdictions.
He assists clients with both transactional and litigious aspects as part of insolvency and reorganization proceedings.
Career
Québec Bar, 2007
Memberships
Member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada.
Member of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec.
Education
McGill University – B.Com. (honours in accounting) (2002) and B.C.L./LL.B. (2006)
Personal
Certified Professional Accountant (CPA).
President of the executive of the Québec insolvency division of the Canadian Bar Association.
Course lecturer at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University from 2002 to 2020.
Author and co-author of multiple articles on insolvency topics, including the Annual Review of Insolvency Law (2007, 2009, 2015, 2019), the Journal of the Insolvency Institute of Canada (2015, 2021) and other publications.
Co-author of the bankruptcy and insolvency section of the Québec Bar school materials.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Restructuring and insolvency
(Next Generation Partners)McCarthy Tétrault‘s group handles both domestic and cross-border restructurings, work-outs and insolvencies. The team regularly represent debtors, major financial institutions and other capital providers, large corporate creditors and court-appointed monitors, receivers and trustees. In Toronto, practice head James Gage focuses on advising debtors, creditors, investors and court officers in work-out, restructuring and insolvency proceedings. Partner Sean Collins in Calgary majors on out-of-court and court-supervised restructurings, while Heather Meredith (also Toronto) covers commercial insolvency, restructuring and bankruptcy mandates, as well as related litigation. Lance Williams is a key contact at the Vancouver office. Other key figures include Alain Tardif and Jocelyn Perreault in Montreal.
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- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
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- Transport > Other transport
- Energy and natural resources > Power
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- Energy and natural resources > Mining
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- Restructuring and insolvency
- Construction
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
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