Ian E. Aversa

Ian Aversa is a partner and member of the firm’s Financial Services, Litigation and Technology Groups. Ian works with his clients to develop sophisticated acquisition, divestiture and recovery strategies, negotiate complex commercial agreements and financings, manage and strategize time-sensitive litigation matters and deliver business-focused solutions to a broad range of corporate and commercial issues. Ian maintains an active restructuring and insolvency law practice focused on the corporate and litigation aspects of financial restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and distressed lending. He has been involved in many of Canada’s largest restructuring proceedings and is frequently retained to act for court officers appointed under the BIA, the CCAA and other corporate statutes. Ian co-leads a team at the firm that represents large technology companies in civil litigation and regulatory proceedings involving issues concerning privacy and data protection, cybersecurity, defamation and intermediary liability. The team also advises technology companies with navigating Canadian privacy and data production laws as they apply to new and existing products, and developing policies and tailored programs for the evolving Canadian market.