Brendan O'Neill

Brendan O’Neill is a partner in the Restructuring Group, a head of the Restructuring Group, and a member of the Executive Committee at Goodmans LLP in Toronto. He has experience leading domestic, cross-border and transnational corporate restructuring transactions and refinancings, including CCAA and CBCA corporate restructurings, as well as other forms of cross-border restructurings, out-of-court restructurings and workouts, mass tort restructurings, strategic bankruptcy-based acquisitions, bankruptcy-based litigation and near-insolvency investing scenarios. Mr. O’Neill regularly leads or co-leads the firm’s representation of debtor companies, secured and unsecured lenders, bondholders and credi- tors, official and unofficial creditors’ committees, key shareholders and leading private-equity firms and other strategic investors focused on distressed situations. He joined Goodmans in 2005 from the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York, where he practiced U.S. bankruptcy and restructuring law for several years. Mr. O’Neill is an active member of the International Insolvency Institute, Insolvency Institute of Canada, ABI, Law Society of Ontario, INSOL International, Turnaround management Association and the Ontario Bar Association’s Insolvency Section. He received his B.A. with honors from Queen’s University and his LL.B. from the University of Toronto.