Ian E. Aversa

Ian Aversa is a partner and member of the firm’s Financial Services, Litigation and Technology Groups. He 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 also has significant experience negotiating the purchase and sale of distressed assets and businesses and structuring DIP financing and other distressed lending transactions. Ian advises corporations, Schedule I banks and other financial institutions, court-appointed officers, secured creditors and bondholders, landlords, purchasers and financiers on domestic and international matters in a variety of industries, with a particular focus on financial services, technology, social media, retail, transportation, real estate, construction, mining and health care. Ian regularly appears as counsel before Toronto’s Commercial List Court, well-known for both restructuring matters and complex business disputes.