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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices
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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
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP‘s practice is frequently called upon by senior secured lenders, insolvency professionals acting as monitors and court-appointed receivers, private equity funds, as well as debtors, for its restructuring expertise. Additional expertise lies in acting for DIP lenders, court officers and prospective purchasers regarding cross-border proceedings including Chapter 11. Toronto-based practice head Alex MacFarlane has particular experience acting for distressed finance, cannabis and retail sector clients, while senior counsel Marc Duchesne co-leads in Montreal and works primarily on the debtor side.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Business immigration
- Pensions
- Business immigration
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Aviation
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- Banking and finance
- Business immigration
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Other transport
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A