Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Insolvency and Restructuring

Senior Counsel

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

• 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)

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

Bar Admission

• Nova Scotia, 1991
• Ontario, 1988