Jeffrey Colwill Carhart

Jeffrey Carhart is a senior partner in the firm’s insolvency practice group. He has been recognized by Chambers Global Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers as a leader in the field of insolvency, and designated as a specialist in bankruptcy and insolvency law by the Law Society of Ontario. Jeff’s clients include banks, trust and insurance companies, asset-based lenders, business corporations, commercial landlords as well as receivers and trustees in bankruptcy.

Jeff has extensive experience in many aspects of lending, securitizations, loan syndications, the enforcement of security over real and personal property, corporate reorganizations, receiverships and bankruptcies. Jeff has been heavily involved in many major Canadian and International corporate insolvency proceedings including Confederation Life, Eaton’s, Royal Oak Mines, The Canadian Red Cross Society, Laidlaw, Teleglobe, AT & T Canada, Oxford Automotive, Air Canada, Calpine, Muscle Tech, One King West, Red Leaves JW Marriott Resort, the Asset Backed Commercial Paper restructuring (“the largest and by far the most complex restructuring in Canada’s history”- American Lawyer Magazine), Nortel, The Source (Circuit City), Mt. Gox (bitcoin exchange) and Target Canada. Jeff appears frequently in The Ontario Superior Court and Court of Appeal on insolvency-related matters. He has more than 30 reported decisions. His cases have been identified by well-known commentators such as Professor Richard McLaren as representing important benchmarks in the development of insolvency law in Canada. Jeff also has extensive experience in dealing with business acquisitions and divestitures and securities law. He is a past director of one of his corporate clients, the Canadian subsidiary of a U.S. public company in the automotive industry. Jeff has acted as lead counsel to several major Canadian and U.S. clients with respect to the acquisition of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of assets from Canadian companies involved in court-supervised insolvency proceedings.