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Roy, André J. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(514) 397-3119 aroy@stikeman.com
Mr. Roy is a partner and member of the Corporate Group. He served on the
Board and Executive Committee of the firm and was the Managing Partner
of the firm's Montréal office for nine years (2009–2018). His expertise and
experience is focused in the areas of private and public financing, cross-
border transactions, public and private M&A, and corporate governance.
Roth, Bernard J. Dentons Canada LLP
(403) 268-6888 bernard.roth@dentons.com
Mr. Roth's practice is focused on energy regulatory law and includes the
regulation of infrastructure, including environmental assessment processes,
as well as all required environmental and regulatory approvals. He has
significant expertise in utility regulation, including in appeals or judicial
review applications to courts from regulatory decisions, as well as tolls/tariff
and rates matters.
Rosenberg, Ken Paliare Roland Rosenberg
Rothstein LLP (416) 646-4304 ken.rosenberg@paliareroland.com
Mr. Rosenberg's litigation practice focuses on commercial, corporate,
shareholder, regulatory and insolvency/restructuring disputes. He also acts
as a mediator and has acted as counsel to a wide range of stakeholders,
including debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, pension plans, unions,
class action plaintiffs, court officers and public/government authorities.
Romano, Simon A. Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5596 sromano@stikeman.com
Mr. Romano is a partner in the Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
Groups. His practice focuses on securities, public and private M&As and
corporate finance. He advises public companies, financial institutions,
underwriters, investment funds, private equity funds, real estate investment
trusts and income trusts, alternative trading systems and regulatory
and self-regulatory organizations.
Raymond, Paul Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
(514) 847-4479 paul.raymond@nortonrosefulbright.com
Mr. Raymond has a wide-ranging domestic and international experience,
principally in the United States, Europe and emerging markets. He is
experienced in corporate and securities law, financings and business
acquisitions and sales. He has acted in various transactions for the purchase
or sale of businesses, as well as in mergers and reorganizations.
Rajpal, Deepak (Dee) Stikeman Elliott LLP
(416) 869-5576 drajpal@stikeman.com
Mr. Rajpal is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets and
Securities Groups. His practice focuses primarily on mergers & acquisitions,
corporate finance, corporate governance, restructuring, proxy disputes
and compliance matters with an emphasis on cross-border and
international transactions.
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the CCAA, she says (Goodmans acted for the
court-appointed monitor), and although there was
initial trepidation, as Target US was the parent,
the restructuring was a success. "at plan received
virtually unheard-of approvals," says Wagner.
As head of the Restructuring & Insolvency
group in Calgary for Blake, Cassels & Graydon
LLP, Kelly Bourassa has handled parallel and
other proceedings on both sides of the Canada/
US border. Canadian and US proceedings, de-
spite their differences, do have a lot of similarities,
she says. "ey still have the same underlying con-
cepts of debtor in possession, restructuring and
the idea that creditors can be compromised.
"In the French sauvegarde regime, it becomes
very interesting because even where there is not
enough money to pay all the creditors, sharehold-
ers still get a vote," she says, "which is completely
averse to what would be accepted in Canada and
in the US, where we both have the view that eq-
uity claims have to come behind debt."
In 2015 and 2016, Bourassa handled two "very
similar" restructuring cases involving Canadian
entities with US assets. One case, Parallel Energy,
involved parallel proceedings, while the second,
Argent Energy, engaged the CCAA in Canada
and Chapter 15 proceedings in the US (recog-
nition proceedings under the US Bankruptcy
Code). e Parallel case is still not fully resolved,
she says; however, the second case, which was
"THE CCAA IS A LEAN AND
FLEXIBLE STATUTE WITH FEWER
CODIFIED RULES. WE AREN'T TIED
TO A LENGTHY CODE, LIKE THE US
BANKRUPTCY CODE, AND MULTIPLE
FIRST-DAY PAPERS AND MOTIONS
THAT SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE
THE COST OF THE PROCEEDINGS."
- MELANEY WAGNER, GOODMANS LLP
