Eric Golden

Eric is a partner and co-chair of the firm’s Business Reorganization & Insolvency Group. Whether he is acting as an advocate, advisor or negotiator, Eric is considered a business person’s litigator. He looks for efficient and practical solutions to address his clients’ strategic concerns and business goals. Learning about and understanding his clients’ businesses and their priorities enable him to work closely with them to realize superior outcomes.

Eric has established long-standing, valued relationships with some of Canada’s leading financial institutions, accounting firms, pension funds, leasing companies, commercial lenders, retailers, title insurers and marketing boards who look to him for his insight and expertise in business law and insolvency matters.

Eric is also one of the firm’s two TAGLaw representatives. TAGLaw is a global alliance of high quality, independent law firms with a sister network ( TIAG ) of accounting firms around the world. In this leadership role, Eric is responsible for overseeing litigation retainers with TAGLaw firms both to and from Blaneys, and in that capacity deals with law firms and clients from all over the world.

Eric acts on behalf of trustees, receivers, monitors, creditors and debtors in matters including receiverships, restructurings, bankruptcies, enforcement of security, debt collection and priority disputes. His commercial litigation practice includes banking and PPSA matters, shareholder disputes, class actions, commercial leasing and other forms of contractual disputes, real estate litigation, fraud, and defense of professional negligence claims against lawyers in commercial matters. Eric’s general civil litigation practice has included an eclectic collection retainers in areas such as defamation, tax, wills and estates, trusts, environmental law and the liability of public authorities.