When Financial Uncertainty Puts Your Business at Risk
When your business faces mounting debt, creditor pressure or operational uncertainty, the path forward is rarely clear. Whether you are a business owner confronting insolvency, a lender protecting significant exposure or a creditor seeking to recover what you are owed, you need counsel who understands the urgency—and the stakes.
Insolvency and restructuring proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA) and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) move quickly and involve competing interests. The decisions made in the earliest stages often determine the outcome: you need an insolvency lawyer with deep experience and the practical judgment to protect your position.
A Legacy of Leadership in Quebec Insolvency Law
Kugler Wechsler has been a trailblazer in bankruptcy, insolvency, and restructuring law in Quebec for close to a century. Our expertise has been passed down through generations of lawyers, keeping our firm among the most highly regarded in this specialized field. We are advocates and trusted business advisors whose focus is understanding your real-time needs and achieving practical, creative solutions.
As a boutique firm with broad insolvency experience, we provide unparalleled, individualized attention—to clients of all sizes—in a cost-effective manner.
Our lawyers are broadly recognized as leaders in this continuously evolving area of law, and we remain at the forefront through extensive publishing, lecturing, and active membership in organizations including the Canadian Insolvency Institute, the American Bankruptcy Institute, and INSOL International.
Representative Mandates
Our lawyers have acted in major proceedings under the BIA and CCAA, as well as cross-border and foreign insolvency matters. Locally, we have been involved in countless matters of significance. From a cross-border perspective, our mandates include Canadian work connected to the insolvency restructuring of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Canada Co., Canadian matters relating to the Bernard Madoff cross-border bankruptcy proceedings, and advice connected to the closure of a Spanish retail chain through insolvency proceedings in Spain.
Our Services in Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Files:
- Representing distressed businesses and insolvent companies in restructurings under the CCAA and BIA.
- Advising major banks, financial institutions, and secured and unsecured creditors.
- Acting for trustees, monitors, receivers, and interim receivers.
- Counseling purchasers of distressed assets, liquidators, and auctioneers.
- Arranging and advising on debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing and exit financing.
- Developing and implementing proposals and plans of arrangement.
- Handling complex insolvency-related litigation.
- Managing cross-border and foreign insolvency proceedings.
