McCarthy Tétrault

His practice consists of advising clients on insolvency or potential insolvency or reorganization matters, and representing them in informal workouts, formal restructurings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act or other statutes, receiverships or bankruptcies, or as part of commercial or litigation matters involving insolvency questions. He has represented various parties in such matters: debtor companies, monitors, trustees, receivers, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, creditor groups, purchasers and investors. He has appeared in front of first instance and appellate courts in Quebec and other Canadian provinces and of the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as in France as part of a French insolvency proceeding involving a Canadian client. He has also been involved in special mandates for the World Bank consisting of the review of insolvency and creditors’ rights regimes in foreign jurisdictions.

He assists clients with both transactional and litigious aspects as part of insolvency and reorganization proceedings.

Québec Bar, 2007

Member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada.

Member of the Ordre des comptables professionnels agréés du Québec.

McGill University - B.Com. (honours in accounting) (2002) and B.C.L./LL.B. (2006)

Certified Professional Accountant (CPA).

President of the executive of the Québec insolvency division of the Canadian Bar Association.

Course lecturer at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University from 2002 to 2020.

Author and co-author of multiple articles on insolvency topics, including the Annual Review of Insolvency Law (2007, 2009, 2015, 2019), the Journal of the Insolvency Institute of Canada (2015, 2021) and other publications.

Co-author of the bankruptcy and insolvency section of the Québec Bar school materials.