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About Caitlin

Caitlin is an Associate who regularly acts on complex mandates involving insolvency litigation, financial restructurings and debt enforcement, in addition to providing more general insolvency advice. She has represented debtors, monitors, receivers, secured creditors, debtor-in-possession lenders and additional clients in both formal insolvency proceedings and out-of-court restructurings. Caitlin has developed specific expertise in cross-border mandates, having recently acted on some of Canada’s largest cross-border files. She routinely provides advice on complex, multi-jurisdictional issues.

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  • The UK incorporated AllSaints USA in the multi-jurisdictional restructuring of its lease portfolio (retail)

  • The court-appointed information officer in the cross-border restructuring proceeding of Knotel, Inc. (real estate)

  • LTL Management LLC in its cross-border restructuring proceeding (pharmaceutical/mass tort)

  • The court-appointed information officer in the cross-border restructuring proceeding of Voyager Digital Ltd. (cryptocurrency)

  • syncreon Group B.V. and its Canadian affiliates in the cross-border balance sheet restructuring of C$1.1-billion of funded debt (logistics)

  • The auditor in the CannTrust restructuring proceedings (cannabis/class action securities litigation)

  • The purchaser in the CCAA proceeding of BioSteel Sports Nutrition Inc (manufacturing/retail)

  • The court-appointed monitor in the insolvency proceedings of JTI-Macdonald Corp. involving over C$600-billion of claims asserted against the tobacco industry (manufacturing)

  • The debtors in the plenary CCAA proceedings of Carillion Canada Inc., Carillion Construction Inc., Canada Holdings Inc., Carillion Canada Finance Corp. and Carillion Pacific Construction Inc. (construction and services)

  • The receiver and construction lien trustee in the Urbancorp receivership proceedings (construction)

  • The debtors in the CCAA proceedings of Bloom Lake General Partner Limited, Quinto Mining Corporation, 8568391 Canada Limited, Cliffs Quebec Iron Mining ULC (formerly, Cliffs Quebec Iron Mining Limited), Bloom Lake Railway Company Limited, The Bloom Lake Iron Ore Mine Limited Partnership, Wabush Resources Inc., Wabush Iron Co. Limited, Wabush Mines, Arnaud Railway Company and Wabush Lake Railway Company Limited (mining)

Awards & Recognition

Caitlin is recognized as a leading Canadian restructuring and insolvency lawyer in the following publications:

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada – 2022–2024 (Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law)

  • The Legal 500 Canada – 2023–2024 (Rising Star – Restructuring and Insolvency)

Professional Activities

Caitlin is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Turnaround Management Association, the Ontario Bar Association and the International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation.

 

Publications
Professional Appearances
  • Panellist : Restructuring and Insolvency: A Cross-Country Year in Review
    Blakes Business Class Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, January 25, 2024.
  • Panellist : Critical Case Law Updates on Insolvency and Restructuring Law
    OBA Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law Program, December 9, 2021.
Education

Admitted to the Ontario Bar – 2017
JD, University of Toronto – 2016
BA (History), McMaster University – 2013

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