Sheryl E. Seigel

Sheryl E. Seigel is a senior partner with McMillan LLP in Toronto and co-chairs its Insolvency and Restructuring department, where she specializes in business bankruptcy and corporate restructuring, commercial insolvency, and creditors' and debtors' remedies. She focuses her pratice on cross-border business restructuring matters, including parallel and companion proceedings filed under chapter 11 or chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and the Canada Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. Ms. Seigel acts for debtors, bondholder groups, formal and ad hoc creditors' committees, institutional and distressed-debt investors, indenture trustees, senior secured creditors, lending syndicates, operating, term, asset-based and second-lien lenders, purchasers, directors, equity-holders, suppliers, monitors,         receivers and trustees in bankruptcy in cross-border and domestic proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. She is experienced in complex restruc- turings in such sectors as manufacturing, steel, automotive, forest products and natural resources, retail, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, technology, biomedical, real estate marketing, and entertainment and media.Ms. Seigel is a member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada and co-chairs the Chapter 11 Subcommittee of the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the ABA Section of Business Law. In addition, she chaired the International Women's Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) from 2000-02 and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Insolvency Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association from 1990-2003. Ms. Seigel received her undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto in 1977 and her LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1980.