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Leader, national restructuring and insolvency practice. Acts for creditors and debtors.
Especially noted for pre-eminent Canadian practice representing bondholders and other
creditor groups, major foreign creditors, court offi cers and landlords in many of Canada's
largest restructurings. Very active cross-border practice involving the US, UK, continental
Europe and Central/South America. Selected to Legal Media Group's ! e Best of the Best
(insolvency and restructuring); Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-border
Litigation Lawyers; ! e Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers
in Canada; ! e 2006 Lexpert® Guide to the 100 Most Creative Lawyers in Canada; and
as a top-tier practitioner by Chambers & Partners, ! e Best Lawyers in Canada, Who's
Who Legal, Global Counsel, PLC, IFLR and others. Member IIC, INSOL International,
ABI and Insolvency Lawyers' Association (UK). Recent Past President of a Toronto
Children's Aid Society and Director of charitable organizations/foundations. Holds
MBA/JD degrees.
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Called to the Ontario Bar in 1981, Ken Rosenberg is an advocate before all levels
of court and tribunals in Canada and in cross-border US and European disputes. His
practice focuses on commercial, corporate, shareholder, regulatory and insolvency/
restructuring disputes. Rosenberg has acted as counsel to a wide range of stakeholders,
including debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, pension plans, unions, class-action
plaintiff s, court offi cers and public/government authorities. Files from the last 10‒12
years with cross-border components have included: Air Canada, Algoma Steel, Stelco,
ABCP, Fraser Paper, Collins & Aikman, Nortel, Indalex, Sino Forest and Lac Megantic/
MM&A. Rosenberg also regularly acts as a mediator and sometimes as an arbitrator in
commercial and regulatory disputes. Rosenberg has worked for three diff erent ministries
in the Ontario government as an executive assistant to the minister for the Ministry of
Consumer and Commercial Relations, the Ministry of Financial Institutions and the
Ministry of Industry, Trade and Technology.
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Partner, member of fi rm's Executive Committee and member of the Board of Direc-
tors of Hydro One and Insolvency Institute of Canada. Practice includes insolvency and
restructuring, focusing on domestic/international fi nancial institutions and on pension
and employee issues in restructurings. Senior counsel to the investor committee who
oversaw the restructuring of Canadian ird Party ABCP, to the province of Ontario
on the GM and Chrysler restructurings and GM IPO, to the liquidators of numerous
fi nancial institutions, including Confederation Life and Union Life and the Canadian
branches of Reliance and Orion Insurance Companies, and to the Superintendent of
Financial Services of Ontario regarding the Algoma and Stelco pension plans. Identi-
fi ed as a leading practitioner of insolvency and restructuring law in publications such
as Lexpert®, Chambers Global, Euromoney, IFLR, Law Business Research and ! e Best
Lawyers in Canada. Recipient of the OBA Award for Excellence in Insolvency Law in
2013. Co-author of LexisNexis service on Insurance Companies Act and on Winding-up
and Restructuring Act.
S. Richard
Orzy
Bennett
Jones LLP
Tel: (416) 777-5737
Fax: (416) 863-1716
Toronto
Ken
Rosenberg
Paliare Roland
Rosenberg
Rothstein LLP
Tel: (416) 646-4304
Fax: (416) 646-4301
Toronto
Gale
Rubenstein
Goodmans LLP
Tel: (416) 597-4148
Fax: (416) 979-1234
Toronto
orzyr@bennettjones.com
ken.rosenberg@paliareroland.com
grubenstein@goodmans.ca
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Partner in the Corporate Restructuring Group. Handles out-of-court restructurings
and workouts, cross-border and transnational insolvencies and restructurings, Canadian
CCAA and CBCA restructurings, bankruptcy-based acquisitions, litigation and near-
insolvency investing scenarios. Clients include debtors, lenders and creditors, creditors'
committees, court-appointed monitors and other stakeholders and investors focused
on distressed situations. Recent representations include Calpine, ABCP, Pliant, Lear,
Compton Petroleum (I and II), White Birch Paper, TerreStar Networks, Sino-Forest,
Lone Pine Resources, Mobilicity, Montreal, Maine & Atlantic (Lac Mégantic), e Cash
Store and Connacher Oil and Gas. Frequent lecturer on cross-border insolvency and
restructuring matters. Serves on various INSOL committees and was Chair of INSOL's
Toronto Seminar. Recognized by Chambers Global, IFLR1000, ! e Best Lawyers in
Canada and Lexpert® as a leading restructuring and insolvency lawyer and by Chambers
Global as a "future leader." Admitted in Ontario and New York.
Brendan
O'Neill
Goodmans LLP
Tel: (416) 849-6017
Fax: (416) 979-1234
Toronto
boneill@goodmans.ca
INSOLVENCY & FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING
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