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jbirch@casselsbrock.com

Telephone: 416 860 5225
Fax: 416 640 3057

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
2100 Scotia Plaza
40 King Street West
Toronto, ON M5H 3C2
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John Birch

John is a partner whose practice focuses on insolvency law and commercial litigation. For over 10 years, he has acted for debtors, creditors, receivers, and trustees in a wide variety of proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, and the Personal Property Security Act. John is currently representing a Toronto Stock Exchange-listed firm in restructuring proceedings, as well as a company formerly listed on the AIM market (London) that is in court-supervised liquidation. John also represents clients in commercial litigation, including shareholder disputes, class proceedings, and debtor-creditor matters.

John is a contributor to Restructuring & Insolvency, an annual publication of Law Business Research Ltd., and he speaks at conferences hosted by the Canadian Bar Association, the University of British Columbia, and the Canadian Institute. He also writes frequently on international insolvency issues. John is the author of chapters on litigation and arbitration in the Canada-U.S. Commercial Law Guide, a loose-leaf service published by Thomson Carswell.

Education

LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School, 1995
M.B.A., Schulich School of Business, York University, 1995
B.A. (with high distinction) in International Relations, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 1991

Call to the bar

Ontario, 1997

Associations

• Canadian Bar Association
• Canadian Insolvency Foundation
• Ontario Bar Association
• Toronto Lawyers Association