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Telephone: 416 869 5960
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Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
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40 King Street West
Toronto, ON M5H 3C2
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David Ward

David is a partner in the firm's Restructuring and Insolvency Group and Commercial Litigation Group. David has a litigation emphasis to his insolvency practice, with a particular focus on creditors' rights and remedies in reorganizations and liquidations under Canada's major insolvency and corporate statutes. Building on his extensive commercial litigation background, David has over 12 years of experience advising a wide range of lenders and creditors on all aspects of commercial reorganizations in Canada.

David acted as counsel in the cross-border reorganization that involved the first application between Canada and the United States of the Committee J Cross-Border Insolvency Concordat, an initiative of the Insolvency and Creditors' Rights Committee of the International Bar Association. Over the years, he has been involved in numerous domestic and cross-border insolvencies where he has advised a wide range of stakeholders including secured creditors, debtors, and court-appointed insolvency representatives. David's creditors' remedies practice encompasses a broad range of specialties including real estate fraud, solicitor's and appraiser's negligence claims, shareholders disputes, investor fraud and injunctions.

David is a regular contributor to Restructuring & Insolvency, an annual publication of Law Business Research Ltd. He co-authored the Partnership Bankruptcy Chapter of Partnership Law in Canada. David has authored numerous shorter articles and conference papers for industry-specific groups on a range of creditors' rights and bankruptcy reform issues of current interest.

David was recently invited to testify to the Senate Banking Trade and Commerce Committee in Ottawa on the reform of Canada's insolvency legislation, being one of the few outside experts invited to do so.

David is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the International Bar Association. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, teaching the International Insolvency segment of the University of Toronto’s Global Professional Master of Laws Program.