Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency

When a business is in financial distress, you have to act quickly and decisively to improve creditor confidence, revive the company, and provide a foundation for future success. Through our corporate restructuring and insolvency services, we give you the straightforward advice you need to make fast, smart decisions and we’ll create pragmatic solutions that address stakeholder concerns.

Selected active engagements.

Who we work with

We work closely with lenders, investors, lawyers, and business owners involved with companies in transitional, operational, or financial stress.

How we help

Our highly responsive corporate restructuring and insolvency experts bring stability and peace of mind. We’re here for you to:

Assess
Perform in-depth business viability assessments and conduct cash flow, profit improvement, and creditor risk analyses.

Consult and advise
Develop strategic turnaround plans and monitor ongoing performance.

Restructure
Identify and implement practical strategies to alleviate operational and financial difficulties.

Manage and administer
Carry out formal corporate insolvency appointments and act as court appointed officer and licensed insolvency trustee for CCAA and BIA proceedings.

Our corporate restructuring and insolvency team

Fuller Landau’s Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency team is made up of the following:

Chartered Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals (CIRPs)
Licensed Insolvency Trustees (LITs)

Our corporate restructuring and insolvency team draws on the expertise of our other in-house advisors such as Corporate Finance, Valuation, fraud and Forensic Accounting, and Tax. Additionally, we are active members of the Turnaround Management Association.

Our services

Assess, consult, and advise

Viability assessment and strategic turnaround plans
Cash flow and profit improvement analysis
Security and collateral assessments
Distressed M&A and corporate finance

Restructure

Financial and operation diagnostic assessment
Options assessment
Management assistance and support
Assessing financing needs, including sourcing alternative capital
Acting in a formal capacity pursuant as proposal trustee or CCAA monitor

Administer

Interim receiver
Private or court-appointed receiver
Trustee in bankruptcy
Court appointed monitor
Court appointed liquidator
Court appointed sales officer
Court appointed information officer
OBCA inspector

Our experience

Take a look at our role and service highlights in a number of projects that reflect our wide range of industry and unique engagements:

For more information, contact us or meet our team.

Meet our team

Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency insights

Corporate restructuring – When does it make sense?

Ken Pearl • November 11, 2024

To be successful in business over the long term, resilience and adaptability are critically important. Business managers/owners can face financial challenges for a variety of reasons ranging from changing customer needs or demographics, obsolete processes/technology, or new, aggressive competition or economic downturns. Businesses that ignore the warning signs or do not implement corrective actions on

Liquidating assets – what’s the current state of the market?

Ken Pearl • September 07, 2021

The liquidation value of assets is commonly used as the baseline when assessing the viability of the business by lenders, shareholders, investors and their financial advisors. The demand and pricing for the liquidation of assets is always dynamic. Compounded with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is even harder to predict with any certainty,

COVID-19: When the fog lifts

Gary Abrahamson • April 17, 2020

There has been a great deal of focus placed on the immediate, harmful impact of COVID-19 on Canadian businesses. While it is essential that business owners tackle the direct consequences, it is equally important to understand the longer-term implications of today’s decisions on your business. Assessing both the immediate and longer-term implications of your choices

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– Toronto Litigation Lawyer

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– Toronto Family Law Lawyer

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Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency

Who we work with

How we help

Our corporate restructuring and insolvency team

Our services

Our experience

Meet our team

Meet our team

Gary Abrahamson

David Filice

Ken Pearl

Adam Erlich

Joshua Samson

Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency insights

Corporate restructuring – When does it make sense?

Liquidating assets – what’s the current state of the market?

COVID-19: When the fog lifts

Talk to us.

– Costa K., Owner of food & beverage manufacturing business

– Toronto Family Lawyer

– Toronto Litigation Lawyer

– Toronto Litigation Lawyer

– Toronto Family Law Lawyer

– Client involved in a shareholder dispute

– Mary Jean Tully, Founder & CEO, Tully Luxury Travel

– Graham Rawlinson, Partner, Torys LLP

– Jake B., Fuller Landau client

– JL, Family Office client

– Michael M., Family Office client

– Michael T., partner at Toronto law firm

– Client involved in a matrimonial matter

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