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Dan R. Dowdall LL.B., B.A., Counsel

Dan is recognized as a leader in the Toronto marketplace in all insolvency, bankruptcy and restructuring matters including creditors’ remedies, debtors’ relief, bankruptcy, receivership, general insolvency matters, corporate restructuring and bank and insolvency related litigation. He has lectured and written extensively in his area of practice.

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Counsel regarding matters of commercial insolvency and restructuring.

Representative Work

Counsel to Grant Forest Products Inc. on the CCAA and US Bankruptcy Court approved acquisition of its OSB facilities by Georgia-Pacific LLC for US$400 million

Grant Forest Products Inc. - Counsel to Grant Forest Products Inc. and its subsidiaries in their proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and Chapter 15 of the US Bankruptcy Code

Represents BDO Dunwoody Limited as CCAA monitor and interim receiver of the Sapphire Tower, a Harry Stinson property, located in downtown Toronto

Acting for Ernst & Young in its capacity as Monitor of Amcan Consolidated Technologies Corp. and its affiliates (an automobile parts manufacturer) in its CCAA proceedings

Acted for Monitor in Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act proceedings of a automotive parts manufacturer

Acted for largest creditor in a receivership of a large car rental business

Acted for Interim Receiver in resolving priority issues arising from liquidation of a construction company

Acted for Monitor in the restructuring of one of the largest sod farming operation in Canada

Acted for Creditor’s committee in a 28-lender restructuring of a large truck leasing enterprise

Acted for largest creditor in a multi-million dollar fraud involving a farm equipment dealer

Acted for Monitor in Companies' Creditors’ Arrangement Act liquidation of automotive brake manufacturer

Restructured and liquidated numerous syndicated retail food industry franchises

Basis 100 - Acted for Basis 100 and its subsidiary, EFA Software, in a complicated multi-jurisdiction insolvency of a software developer in the international financial services sector

Cervus group of companies - Acted for Cervus, a TSX traded administrator and originator of a billion dollar portfolio of residential mortgages in Creditors’ Companies Remedy Act proceedings that resulted in payment of all creditors and a return to shareholders

OAO Severstal - Acted for this bidder in the Court-supervised sales process for Stelco Inc., a Canadian steel manufacturing company, and its affiliates under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act

Hunter Drums Limited – Restructuring counsel for this Canadian subsidiary U.S.-based parent, Russell-Stanley Holdings, Inc. et al. under Section 18.6 (international ancillary proceedings) of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act ancillary to a pre-packaged plan of reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, which resulted in the sale of substantially all of the assets of and Canadian subsidiaries

Publications

Are Suppliers Who Provide Post Filing Credit Adequately Protected in Canadian Insolvency Law and Practice?

The Latest Word on CCAA Interim Financing: DIP Financing & Alternative Financing Arrangements

Teaching Roles

Former Instructor and Lecturer on insolvency law issues at Bar Admission Course of Ontario