Insolvency proceedings and business disputes are often stressful times for the parties involved. Katie understands this challenge and offers expert guidance during what are commonly complicated and foreign legal processes. She unravels the law to help clients save resources, preserve business and protect interests, capital and investments.
Katie provides executable solutions on a broad range of insolvency and restructuring issues as well as commercial litigation matters.
Work Highlights
Catalyst Paper Corporation
- Acting for the senior bond holders
Huldra Mining
- CCAA acting for the debtor company
The League group of entities
- CCAA acting for the debtor company
Services
| Receivership proceedings | Bankruptcy matters |
| Insolvency and restructuring | Debt recovery |
| Security realization and enforcement | Debtor protection |
| Corporate restructuring | Collections |
| Priority issues | Enforcement of foreign judgments |
| Business disputes | Cross-border insolvency proceedings, including Chapter 11 proceedings under the United States Bankruptcy Code |
| Creditors’ rights | Multi-jurisdictional fraud matters |
| Commercial bankruptcies |
Katie has represented clients before the Provincial Court of British Columbia, Supreme Court of British Columbia and the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
With an economics background, Katie understands the interplay between the finances of a business and how best to structure companies and resolve issues to be fiscally reparative. Whether acting for companies in commercial distress, for creditors in recovering debt or for trustees and monitors in restructuring proceedings, Katie provides workable advice that can be readily applied to protect clients.
Our clients appreciate the assurance that Katie provides in her ability to achieve goals for companies and people involved in insolvency proceedings and litigation.
Awards & Distinctions
- Best Lawyers in Canada, Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law, 2024
