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McCarthy Tétrault Offices

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Mr Alain Tardif

Position
Alain N. Tardif is a partner in the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Group in Montréal. His practice focuses on domestic, cross-border and transnational corporate restructuring transactions, including All kind of cross-border restructurings, out-of-court restructurings and workouts, strategic insolvency-based acquisitions, and near-insolvency investing scenarios He has acted in a significant number of restructurings and reorganizations, leading representation of debtor companies, lenders, creditors, key shareholders, private equity firms and strategic investors. He frequently assists the World Bank as an insolvency law expert, and as such, participated in missions in various countries in the Caribbean and Africa.
His expertise and experience have led to regular invitations to speak to various organizations about insolvency issues and to present restructuring strategies tailored to the firm’s clients , to be chosen as co-editor of the Canadian Bankruptcy Report and to becoming a member of the intervention committee of CAIRP.
Career
Québec Bar, 1992
Alain lectures at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal on the subject of commercial restructuring.
Memberships
Member of the Canadian Turnaround Management Association, a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, and a member of INSOL International. In the past Alain sat on the committee for the accreditation of bankruptcy trustees and has been president of the Canadian Bar Association, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Division (Québec chapter).
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Restructuring and insolvency
(Leading partners)The practice group at McCarthy Tétrault is well-placed to represent debtors, corporate creditors, court-appointed monitors, receivers and trustees in domestic and cross-border restructurings, workouts and insolvencies. A recent standout mandate saw the team represent the trustee to the bankruptcy of Public Bike System Company in a dispute relating to the City of Montréal’s claim. Toronto-based James Gage heads up the practice and handles domestic and international workouts, CCAA, receivership and bankruptcy proceedings. Additional key contacts include Calgary-based Sean Collins (out-of-court and court-supervised restructurings); Toronto-based Heather Meredith; Vancouver-based Lance Williams; and Alain Tardif and Jocelyn Perreault, both of whom are based in Montreal.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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