100 King St W, Suite 1600, 1 First Cdn Pl, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1993 (ON)
Clifton Prophet is a partner and leader of Gowling WLG’s national Financial Institutions Litigation Practice Group. Cliff practises in the areas of restructuring and insolvency and financial services. He advises and represents financial institutions, creditors, debtors, insolvency practitioners and other stakeholders in all types of reorganization, liquidation and realization proceedings. Cliff also provides advice and representation with respect to issues arising on the purchase and sale of businesses. Other aspects of his advisory practice include acting for the trustees and administrators of pension plans. Cliff appears on behalf of his clients before the superior and appellate courts of Ontario and Canada and various administrative tribunals, including the Financial Services Tribunal. Cliff is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and spent two years practising in London, where he advised a range of clients in relation to substantial multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions. He has been recognized in Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, TheBest Lawyers in Canada, the Legal 500 Canada and named in the Thomson Reuters Stand-out Lawyers2025 list.
On November 30, 2018, Essar Steel Algoma Inc. (“ESAI”) concluded its comprehensive restructuring under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act by way of the sale of substantially all of its assets to Algoma Steel Inc. (“ASI”).
