The Lexpert Guides to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate and Litigation Lawyers in Canada profiles leading business lawyers and features articles for attorneys and in-house counsel in the US about business law issues in Canada.
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INSOLVENCY & FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING Andrew J.F. Kent McMillan LLP Tel: (416) 865-7160 Fax: (647) 722-6715 Toronto andrew.kent@mcmillan.ca Fred Myers Goodmans LLP Tel: (416) 597-5923 Fax: (416) 979-1234 Toronto fmyers@goodmans.ca S. Richard Orzy Bennett Jones LLP Tel: (416) 777-5737 Fax: (416) 863-1716 Toronto orzyr@bennettjones.com Andy Kent's business law practice is focused on restructuring and debt finance. For many years he has been rated in leading directories as a preeminent restructuring practitioner, as a leading banking lawyer and as one of Canada's foremost business lawyers. Kent has been commended for his strategic abilities, technical excellence, trouble shooting and problem-solving skills, and for the energetic pursuit of clients' interests. Representative transactions include major reorganizations and financings in all major industry sectors including many cross-border transactions. Kent has been a key innovator and has led professional efforts to reform Canada's business insolvency laws. He has served as Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto and is a Fellow of the Insolvency Institute of Canada. In 2011, Kent was identified as one of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada. Corporate restructuring litigation. Fred Myers has extensive experience in courts across Canada in cases involving corporate restructuring, insolvency and corporate governance. Myers had lead litigation roles in the recent Supreme Court of Canada hearing on Indalex Limited, the largest successful restructuring in Canadian history involving asset-backed commercial paper, as well as the cross-border insolvencies of Nortel Networks Corp., AbitibiBowater Inc., Mecachrome, Calpine Corp., and others. Myers has considerable experience in corporate governance proceedings involving oppression claims, plans of arrangement and other corporate remedies. Recognized as a leading insolvency and financial restructuring lawyer by Lexpert®, Chambers & Partners, PLC's Which Lawyer?, Euromoney, IFLR 1000, Who's Who Legal: Canada and The Best Lawyers in Canada. LLB, Gold Medalist, Osgoode Hall Law School, 1983. Clerked for the Right Honorable Bora Laskin, Chief Justice of Canada. LLM, Harvard Law School, 1985. Member of the Board of Directors of the Insolvency Institute of Canada. Leader, National Restructuring and Insolvency practice. Practice covers all major areas of restructuring, acting for creditors and debtors. Especially noted for pre-eminent Canadian practice representing bondholders, major foreign creditors, creditors' committees and court officers in many of Canada's largest restructurings, including Yellow Media, Nortel, OPTI Canada, SkyLink Aviation, Catalyst Paper, NewPage, AbitibiBowater, Smurfit-Stone, Gateway Casinos, Quebecor World, Tembec, Canadian ABCP, Stelco, Parmalat Canada and AT&T Canada. Selected to Legal Media Group's The Best of the Best 2012 (Insolvency and Restructuring); The 2013 Lexpert ® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border Corporate Lawyers in Canada; The 2013 Lexpert ®/ American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; The Lexpert ® Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada; and as a top-tier practitioner by Chambers & Partners, The Best Lawyers in Canada, Who's Who Legal, Global Counsel, PLC, IFLR and others. Very actively involved in many charitable organizations. Orestes Pasparakis Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Tel: (416) 216-4815 Fax: (416) 216-1995 Toronto orestes.pasparakis@nortonrosefulbright.com 102 | LEXPERT • December 2013 | www.lexpert.ca Orestes Pasparakis is Co-chair of Norton Rose Fulbright's Canadian special situations team, which encompasses Canada's leading shareholder activist practice, sophisticated securities disputes and complex reorganization transactions. He focuses on high-stakes disputes that often proceed in "real time" or on an urgent basis. He is often retained to deal with critical corporate issues that have no apparent solution. His approach is practical and results-oriented. Many of his cases are international, involving cross-border issues. He has expertise with complex commercial litigation, financial restructurings, insolvency proceedings, injunctions and class actions. Pasparakis is widely regarded as one of Canada's leading experts in proxy contests. He has been recognized by major directories such as Chambers Global, IFLR1000, the Guide to the World's Leading Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers, and was profiled in Lexpert®'s "Litigation Lawyers to Watch."