Year of Call

Ontario, 2004

Education

LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School, 2003

B.A. (Hons), York University, 2000

Larry Ellis

Larry is a key member of the firm’s Restructuring and Insolvency group. He has extensive experience in both the litigation and commercial aspects of corporate restructurings, bankruptcies, receiverships, work-outs and enforcement of creditors' rights and remedies. He represents a number of different parties, including purchasers, secured and unsecured creditors, receivers, debtors, monitors, trustees and lending syndicates.

Larry’s experience includes:

Representing Hilco (UK) Ltd. in its purchase of $130 million of the Kraus Group's debt and security from three secured lenders
Acting for court appointed receivers/officers in the following recent matters: Delta Graphics, Triwest Construction, True Bend Tobacco and Connex See Services
Representing Home Trust Company in relation to the ongoing Canadian restructuring of Blockbuster Canada Co.
Representing the Board of the United Kingdom Pension Protection Fund and the Trustees for the Nortel Networks UK Pension Trust Limited in the multibillion dollar restructuring of Nortel Networks Limited
Representing Kobe Steel Limited, one of Japan’s most significant industrial concerns, in the reorganization proceedings of Newfoundland and Labrador Refining Corporation, one of the largest oil refineries ever to be constructed in Eastern North America
Representing original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and other auto makers in various proceedings, including CCAA's, court-appointed receiverships and private receiverships
Representing OEM’s and tier one part suppliers in numerous troubled supplier cases
Representing accounting firms, acting in their capacity as court-appointed receivers
Representing accounting firms, acting in their capacity as trustees in bankruptcy
Representing the administrator of the registered pension plans of the world's largest independent designer and manufacturer of driver control systems in their CCAA restructuring
Representing and assisting in the representation of corporations involved in CCAA and BIA restructurings, including a manufacturer of specialized paper for publishing, packaging and commercial printing as well as a leading food and beverage company

Larry is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute, INSOL International, the Turnaround Management Association, the Insolvency Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association, the Toronto Lawyers Association, the Canadian Insolvency Foundation and the Canadian Bar Association. He is scheduled to be an instructor at the University of Toronto’s Law School bar preparation course. Larry is the Program Chair for the III NextGen Leadership Program Class I Program (a program designed to enhance the Next Generation of leading insolvency professionals’ understanding of international insolvencies and restructurings) running in conjunction with the 12th Annual Insolvency Conference in Paris, France.