Ms Geneviève Cloutier > Gowling WLG > Montreal, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Gowling WLG Offices
3700 - 1 PLACE VILLE MARIE
MONTRÉAL, QUEBEC H3B 3P4
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Ms Geneviève Cloutier
Position
Partner
Leader, Restructuring & Insolvency Group (Canada)
Career
Geneviève Cloutier is the leader of Gowling WLG’s Canadian Restructuring & Insolvency Group, and a partner in the firm’s Montréal office. Her practice is primarily focused on the areas of insolvency and restructuring, distressed acquisitions, and banking and commercial litigation.
Geneviève regularly represents financial institutions and private lenders with respect to the enforcement of security agreements and personal guarantees, the negotiation of standstill agreements, and various insolvency-related issues. She has been involved in matters related to corporate reorganizations, arrangements, bankruptcies, receiverships, and other forms of liquidation of assets. Throughout her career, she has acted for debtors, lenders, purchasers, secured and unsecured creditors, and directors, as well as various accounting firms in their capacity as trustees, monitors, and receivers.
She frequently appears before the Superior Court and the Court of Appeal of Québec, and has appeared before the Supreme Court Canada.
Geneviève is the current president (2021-2022) of the Montréal chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA), and has served as a director of the TMA (Montréal chapter) for the past seven years. She also teaches priorities and security enforcement at the Québec Bar School (École du Barreau du Québec).
Geneviève practises law in both English and French.
Languages
English, French
Memberships
Year of Call: 2002 – Quebec
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Restructuring and insolvency
The group at Gowling WLG specializes in multi-jurisdictional and cross-border restructuring and insolvency matters, and is routinely instructed by debtors, creditors and court appointed officers. Geneviève Cloutier leads the practice from Montreal and focuses on insolvency and restructuring, distressed acquisitions, and banking and commercial litigation matters. National distressed M&A department practice head David Cohen, of the Toronto office, is also active on domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency mandates.
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