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O'Neill, Brendan, Goodmans LLP Toronto - (416) 849-6017 - boneill@goodmans.ca
Partner in the Corporate Restructuring Group. Handles out-of-court restructurings and workouts, cross-bor-
der and transnational insolvencies and restructurings, Canadian CCAA and CBCA restructurings, bank-
ruptcy-based acquisitions, litigation and near-insolvency investing scenarios. Clients include debtors, lenders,
creditors, creditors' committees, court-appointed monitors and other stakeholders and investors focused on
distressed situations. Recent representations include Calpine Canada, ABCP, Pliant, Lear, Mecachrome,
SemCanada, Allen-Vanguard, Frontera Copper, Compton Petroleum (I and II), White Birch Paper Com-
pany, TerreStar Networks, Sino-Forest, NewPage, Lone Pine Resources, Mobilicity, Montreal, Maine & At-
lantic (Lac Mégantic), e Cash Store, Connacher Oil and Gas, Laricina Energy and Aurcana Corporation,
among others. Frequent lecturer on cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters. Recognized by Cham-
bers Global, IFLR1000, e Best Lawyers in Canada and Lexpert®. Named one of Lexpert®'s "Rising Stars:
Leading Lawyers Under 40" in 2009. Admitted in Ontario and New York.
MacFarlane, Alex L., Gowling WLG Toronto - (416) 369-4631 - alex.macfarlane@gowlingwlg.com
Alex MacFarlane is a partner and head of Gowling WLG's Restructuring and Insolvency Group (Toronto).
He regularly acts for debtor corporations, financial institutions, court-appointed monitors, liquidators and
receivers, creditors' committees and trustees in bankruptcy. He has extensive expertise in cross-border restruc-
turings and insolvency and restructuring proceedings. MacFarlane appears as counsel in court proceedings
relating to insolvency and restructuring proceedings. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, including
American Bar Association, Annual Review of Insolvency Law, Risk Management Association and e Law
Society of Upper Canada. MacFarlane was past Chair of Ontario Bar Association's Insolvency Law Section,
Director of Turnaround Management Association (Chicago) and past Vice President of the Toronto chapter.
He is a member of the Canadian Insolvency Foundation, Insolvency Institute of Canada, American Bank-
ruptcy Institute, Turnaround Management Association and INSOL International. MacFarlane is ranked by
Chambers Global: e World's Leading Lawyers for Business since 2009.
Rubenstein, Gale, Goodmans LLP Toronto - (416) 597-4148 - grubenstein@goodmans.ca
Partner. Member of firm's Executive Committee. Practice includes insolvency and restructuring, focusing on
domestic/international financial 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
financial 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. Member of the Board of Directors of Hydro One and Insolvency Insti-
tute of Canada. Identified as a leading practitioner of insolvency and restructuring law in publications such
as Lexpert®, Chambers Global, Euromoney, IFLR1000, Law Business Research and e Best Lawyers in Can-
ada. Recipient of the OBA Award for Excellence in Insolvency Law in 2013.
Tay, Derrick C., Gowling WLG Toronto - (416) 369-7330 - derrick.tay@gowlingwlg.com
Derrick Tay leads the firm's corporate restructuring practice. His primary focus is on the restructuring and
reorganization of complex debtor corporations, and he has deep experience in cross-border and multi-jurisdic-
tional transactions, including being debtor's counsel for Nortel Networks Limited and counsel to the Monitor
in the Algoma and the Sino-Forest proceedings. He and his Québec partners are also debtor's counsel in the
proceedings of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Canada Co., whose trains were involved in the Lac Mégantic
train disaster. He has also written and spoken extensively and has taught courses at several law schools.
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