Mitch Stephenson is a partner in the firm’s Insolvency and Restructuring Group. Mitch represents clients in all manner of insolvency proceedings, including domestic and cross-border restructurings and bankruptcies as well as receivership proceedings and liquidation and wind-up proceedings. Mitch provides guidance to clients in both transactional and litigation settings, helping them surmount obstacles at any stage of an insolvency proceeding, strategic process, or workout process. His clients come from all stakeholder categories, including banks, credit unions, investment funds, debtors, landlords, tenants, suppliers, and prospective purchasers of distressed assets. Mitch also advises trustee firms in their engagements as monitors, information officers, receivers, liquidators, and trustees-in-bankruptcy.
Mitch’s work intersects with a variety of industry sectors, including mining, banking and financial services, insurance, logistics, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, hospitality, retail, construction, real estate, and others. Mitch has also represented clients in the public sector, including financial services regulators and for-profit and non-profit crown corporations.
Mitch has appeared in all levels of court in Ontario and has experience litigating large-scale contractual disputes, multi-jurisdictional and cross-border cases, class actions, and international arbitrations as well as disputes related to oppression and corporate governance, directors’ and officers’ liability, public and administrative law, and professional negligence. Mitch has also successfully represented clients in their efforts to obtain and resist injunctive relief.
Mitch is a member of the Turnaround Management Association and is recognized by Best Lawyers® Ones To Watch in the practice area of Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law.
