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TORONTO, ONTARIO
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Tony DeMarinis

Work Department
Restructuring & Insolvency
Position
Tony is a widely recognized leader in his field, with decades of experience playing pivotall roles in prominent and successful Canadian and cross-border restructurings and insolvencies. Clients call upon his leading corporate and insolvency experience to drive many of this field’s most demanding transactions and proceedings.
As Chair of Torys’ Canadian Corporate Restructuring and Advisory Practice, Tony advises a wide range of leading clients on all aspects of corporate financial restructurings or insolvencies, including transactions and proceedings involving negotiated workouts, recapitalizations, debt exchanges, re-financings, distressed investments and acquisitions, court proceedings under the federal Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act or Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, plans of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act, sales auctions, bridge and debtor-in-possession loans, and receiverships.
Tony’s clients include public companies seeking to re-finance or restructure debt, lenders and lending syndicates, ad hoc bondholder groups, bridge and debtor-in-possession lenders, financial sponsors, distressed business purchasers, exit lenders, receivers, monitors and information officers. He has deep expertise across many industry sectors, including energy, mining, oil and gas, retail, entertainment, manufacturing, financial services, real estate, media, tobacco, forestry, agriculture, telecommunications and technology.
Career
Ontario Bar, 1989
Memberships
Tony is a member of all of Canada’s leading restructuring and insolvency organizations, including the Insolvency Institute of Canada, the Turnaround Management Association and the Insolvency Section of the Ontario Bar Association. He is also a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and INSOL.
He has lectured to a variety of leading industry groups, including the Insolvency Institute of Canada and the Canadian Institute’s conference on Advanced Insolvency & Restructuring Law, on topics ranging from cross-border insolvencies and restructurings to the financing of restructurings and alternative restructuring arrangements.
Tony has also been a guest lecturer on restructurings for the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Restructuring and insolvency
(Leading partners)Torys‘ practice group is routinely called upon by boards of directors and senior management to act on restructuring and insolvency mandates across a range of sectors, among them financial services, retail, pharmaceuticals and mining. The practice is jointly directed by David Bish, who has experience handling bankruptcy proceedings, proposals, wind-ups, liquidations, reorganizations, restructurings and receiverships; and Tony DeMarinis, who focuses on negotiated workouts, recapitalizations, distressed investments and acquisitions, and court proceedings under the federal CCAA. Also noted are Scott Bomhof; litigator Jeremy Opolsky; and Adam Slavens, who is lauded by one client as ‘practical, experienced and technically sound’. All lawyers mentioned are based at the Toronto office.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and M&A
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Energy and natural resources > Power
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Cannabis
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- International expertise
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Pensions
- Real estate
- Tax
- Technology
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- International trade
- Public procurement
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Labour and employment