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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower
22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON M5H 4E3
Canada
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Alex MacFarlane

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Work Department

Insolvency and Restructuring

Position

Senior Counsel

Career

Alex acts as counsel in insolvency and restructuring proceedings. He serves a variety of clients, including:

  • debtor corporations
  • financial institutions
  • court appointed monitors
  • proposal trustees
  • trustees-in-bankruptcy
  • receivers
  • receiver/managers

He serves clients across a broad spectrum of industries in proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, and the Winding-Up and Restructuring Act, and in cross-border proceedings.

Alex has been lead counsel in numerous insolvency and restructuring proceedings on the Commercial List of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Alex has also acted as lead counsel on numerous distressed divesture or acquisition transactions related to the CCAA, receivership, bankruptcy or winding-up proceedings, acting for:

  • receivers, proposal trustees, trustees, monitors or debtor corporations, as sellers
  • third party entities, as potential purchasers

Memberships

  • Member, Ontario Bar Association, Insolvency Law Executive, 1998 – present
  • Member, Turnaround Management Association, 2007 – present
  • American Bankruptcy Institute
  • INSOL International
  • Toronto Lawyers Association
  • The Advocates’ Society
  • The Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society (NSBS)

Education

  • LLB, Dalhousie University, 1986
  • MA (ABD), York University
  • BA, University of British Columbia, 1981

Bar Admission

  • Nova Scotia, 1991
  • Ontario, 1988

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Restructuring and insolvency

The practice at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP regularly handles insolvency, bankruptcy and restructuring proceedings, including liquidations in the financial services, construction, mining and energy sectors. The group is routinely instructed by senior secured lenders, insolvency professionals acting as monitor, and debtors alike. Toronto-based Alex MacFarlane leads the national department and specializes in cross-border restructurings and insolvency proceedings under the CCAA. Also noted is Montreal-based litigator Isabelle Desharnais. Ex-practice co-head Marc Duchesne recently retired.

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