INSOLVENCY & FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING
Sylvain Rigaud
Norton Rose
Fulbright
Canada LLP
Tel: (514) 847-4702
Fax: (514) 286-5474
Montréal
sylvain.rigaud@nortonrosefulbright.com
Sylvain Rigaud practices domestic and cross-border insolvency and restructuring. He
advises insolvent companies in formal and informal restructurings, as well as financial
institutions, lessors, bondholders, strategic purchasers, trustees, receivers and monitors.
He is past Chair of the Executive Committee of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Section
of the CBA (Québec), and a member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada, Insol International and the TMA.
Christian B. Roy
Norton Rose
Fulbright
Canada LLP
Tel: (418) 640-5028
Fax: (418) 640-1500
Québec City
christian.roy@nortonrosefulbright.com
William C.
Kaplan, QC
Blake, Cassels &
Graydon LLP
Tel: (604) 631-3304
Fax: (604) 631-3309
Vancouver
bill.kaplan@blakes.com
Christian Roy's practice focuses primarily on corporate restructuring, bankruptcy,
insolvency and realization of bank guarantees. His services are often retained by companies with restructuring needs and by court-appointed officers, financial institutions,
secured and unsecured creditors and purchasers of assets from distressed companies. He
has acted for several financial institutions and companies in connection with informal
workouts and debtor-in-possession financings. Roy has participated in numerous major
restructurings and receiverships, in a broad range of industries, including construction,
manufacturing, saw mills, pulp and paper, technology, pharmaceutical, mining, retail
and real estate. He also acts in cases involving liability of directors and officers.
Bill Kaplan has extensive experience in virtually all litigation matters related to business
law. He has a particular practice focus on corporate commercial matters, insolvency
law, including numerous cross-border cases, securities law matters, and corporate
governance issues. Kaplan has appeared before all levels of the courts system in British
Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Canada, the BC Securities Commission and numerous other administrative tribunals and arbitration boards.
Kaplan has practiced in the full range of dispute resolution contexts from traditional
trials and related pre-trial procedures to arbitrations and mediations. Kaplan is currently
an Adjunct Professor of law at the University of British Columbia, teaching in the area
of negotiations. Kaplan received his LLB from the University of British Columbia in
1979, he was submitted to the Bar in British Columbia in 1980, received an LLM degree
from Harvard University in 1981 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2001.
David W. Mann
Dentons
Canada LLP
Tel: (403) 268-7097
Fax: (403) 268-3100
Calgary
david.mann@dentons.com
David Mann is the Co-chair of the firm's National Insolvency and Restructuring Group.
His practice focuses on insolvency matters, having appeared regularly before Alberta's
Bankruptcy Court and Court of Appeal, as well as having made submissions to the
Ontario Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. Mann has acted for lenders,
debtors, receivers/trustees, creditors/counterparties, DIP financiers and acquisitors in a
variety of insolvency proceedings. Mann has also had extensive involvement with financial/derivatives contracts in insolvency proceedings and has participated in legislative
advisory committees respecting Alberta's Civil Enforcement Act, registered savings plan
protection, and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act reform. He is a member of the IIC and has
contributed to a number of articles and seminars for the CBA, the Legal Education Society
of Alberta and others. Admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1990.
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