Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP excels in handling restructuring and insolvency matters in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary. The team is comprised of lawyers with experience internationally and in the US, enabling the firm to assist clients on cross-border and multijurisdictional transactions and issues involving the US, UK and other overseas jurisdictions. The team acts of debtors, lenders and court officers in a wide array of industries on international and domestic restructurings and liquidations. The practice is spearheaded by Toronto-based Natalie Levine and Vancouver-based Vicki Tickle. Levine leverages her experience as a practitioner in the US to advise US clients on Canadian insolvency issues and proceedings, while Tickle advises Canadian and international clients on CCAA proceedings and restructurings. In Toronto, Ryan Jacobs is a bankruptcy expert focused on in-court and out-of-court reorganizations and Shayne Kukulowicz focuses on cross-border restructurings and liquidations. Jane Dietrich left the firm in 2025.
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Key clients

  • Grant Thornton
  • Black Press
  • KSV Restructuring
  • Cortland Credit Lending
  • FTI Consulting Canada
  • Loyalty Ventures and LoyaltyOne
  • Alvarez & Marsal Canada
  • Ernst & Young
  • Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors
  • ACM Advisors
  • Hiking Group
  • Pluribus Technologies

Lawyers

Leading partners

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Practice head

Natalie Levine; Vicki Tickle

Other key lawyers

Ryan Jacobs; Shayne Kukulowicz; Joseph Bellissimo