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    Supreme Court of Canada Rules in Favour of Lenders in Callidus
    2018-11-13

    In a 2017 judgment discussed here, the Federal Court of Appeal permitted the CRA to assert a claim against a secured creditor who had received a repayment from its borrower prior to bankruptcy when the borrower also owed unremitted GST obligations to the Crown.

    Filed under:
    Canada, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Tax, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Supreme Court of Canada
    Authors:
    Walker W. MacLeod
    Location:
    Canada
    Firm:
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP
    Court of Appeal upholds Redwater decision
    2017-04-25

    In a majority two to one decision released on April 24, 2017, the Alberta Court of Appeal has upheld the lower court ruling in Re Redwater Energy Corporation.

    Filed under:
    Canada, Alberta, Environment & Climate Change, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act 1985 (Canada), Alberta Energy Regulator, Court of Appeal of Alberta
    Authors:
    Sean F. Collins , Walker W. MacLeod , Pantelis Kyriakakis
    Location:
    Canada
    Firm:
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP
    The need for a legal ground to stand on: a shareholders class action is dismissed at the authorization stage for failure to meet article 1003 b) C.p.c. (Groupe d’action d’investisseurs dans Biosyntech c. Tsang, 2015 QCCS 3265)
    2015-08-17

    In the spring of 2010, BioSyntech, a start-up biotechnology company, developing a cartilage-repair product, BST-Car Gel, filed a Notice of Intention to make a proposal under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. In the subsequent bankruptcy proceedings, the intellectual property relating to the BST-Car Gel was sold.

    Filed under:
    Canada, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
    Location:
    Canada
    Firm:
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP
    Farley's reflections: sunrise, sunset
    2011-09-08

    Sunrise, sunset. Perhaps a matchmaker would have helped. The saga of the dispute between Ventas, Inc. and Health Care Property Investors, Inc. arose five years ago when Sunrise Senior Living Real Estate Investment Trust’s "board of trustees determined that a strategic sale process of its assets would be beneficial to its unitholders, thus effectively putting Sunrise ‘in play’ on the public markets" (per Blair J.A. for the Ontario Court of Appeal) in Ventas, Inc. v.

    Filed under:
    Canada, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Fraud, Real estate investment trust, Court of Appeal of England & Wales, Court of Appeal for Ontario, Trustee
    Location:
    Canada
    Firm:
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP
    Montréal (Ville) c Restructuration Deloitte inc : la discrétion du tribunal de suspendre la compensation lors de procédures en vertu de la Lacc
    2021-12-13

    Dans l’affaire de la Loi sur les arrangements avec les créanciers des compagnies (« Lacc ») relative à Groupe SM, la Cour suprême du Canada prononce une décision sur la compensation dans le cadre de procédures en vertu de la Lacc.

    Filed under:
    Canada, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McCarthy Tétrault LLP
    Location:
    Canada
    Firm:
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP
    Are demobilization costs incurred by the lessor of property leased pursuant to an agreement which was disclaimed during insolvency proceedings to be paid by the debtor?
    2020-03-19

    In the matter of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act of Nemaska Lithium, the Québec Superior Court rendered an interesting decision regarding the possibility for a debtor to disclaim agreements and its obligation, if any, to pay its counterparty the costs it must incur to repossess leased property.

    Background: Nemaska Lithium disclaims a housing modules rental agreement

    Filed under:
    Canada, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Coal mining, Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act 1933 (Canada)
    Authors:
    Gabriel Faure , Marc-Antoine Gaudet
    Location:
    Canada
    Firm:
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP
    Catch Me If You Can: The Court’s Jurisdiction to Annul Bankruptcies Commenced in Other Provinces
    2018-09-17

    In Arrangement relatif à Ferreira, 2018 QCCS 3891 (“Ferreira”), the Quebec Superior Court recently annulled an assignment in bankruptcy that had been filed in Ontario in an attempt to subvert bankruptcy proceedings already underway in Quebec.

    Filed under:
    Canada, Quebec, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act 1985 (Canada)
    Authors:
    Trevor A Courtis
    Location:
    Canada
    Firm:
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP
    Federal Court addresses maritime lien issues in OW Group bankruptcy proceedings
    2017-04-04

    In a recent decision, the Federal Court of Appeal had occasion to consider a claim at the crossroads of bankruptcy and maritime law (ING Bank N.V. v. Canpotex Shipping Services Limited et al., 2017 FCA 47). Normally in Canada, bankruptcy cases are adjudicated in the superior courts of the respective provinces.

    Filed under:
    Canada, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Shipping & Transport, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Bankruptcy, Federal Court of Appeal (Canada)
    Location:
    Canada
    Firm:
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP
    A little knowledge is a dangerous thing…because it calls for reasonable diligence
    2014-05-23

    The British Columbia Court of Appeal recently released a helpful decision applying principles of discoverability to determine when a limitation period begins to run. In Roberts v. E.

    Filed under:
    Canada, British Columbia, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Statute of limitations, Due diligence, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act 1985 (Canada)
    Location:
    Canada
    Firm:
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP
    Franchise agreements may be assigned to another franchisee without consent upon bankruptcy
    2011-06-16

    A recent Alberta appellate decision establishes that a trustee in bankruptcy may sell a franchise agreement to a third party, in spite of objections by the franchisor, under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA). The Alberta Court of Appeal’s decision in Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd v Welcome Ford Sales Ltd contains three important messages for franchisors:

    Filed under:
    Canada, Alberta, Franchising, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Bankruptcy, Consent, Legal burden of proof, Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act 1985 (Canada), United States bankruptcy court, Court of Appeal of Alberta, Trustee
    Location:
    Canada
    Firm:
    McCarthy Tétrault LLP

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