Gavin H. Finlayson

Gavin H. Finlayson is a partner with Miller Thomson LLP in Toronto and focuses his practice on in-solvency and restructuring. He provides strategic advice to court officers, creditors and debtors across a broad range of business sectors, including bondholders, accounting firms and insurers, as well as cryptocurrency, broadband, therapeutic psychedelic and biotech companies. Mr. Finlayson also regularly advises cannabis companies on regulatory and litigation matters and has represented both LPs and provincial retail license-holders in a variety of cannabis-related litigation, from debt enforcement and contractual disputes to judicial reviews of regulatory decisions. He has been counsel before all levels ofCanadian courts, as well as a number of administrative and regulatory tribunals, and has played a keyrole in many complex and notable Canadian restructurings, class actions and other complex litigation.He has particular expertise in cross-border matters between Canada and the U.S. Mr. Finlayson is aFellow of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals (IN-SOL), a course instructor for INSOL and a member of the editorial committee for the monthly INSOL International News Update Committee. He also has been counsel in numerous reported decisions and regularly writes and presents on novel and notable legal developments. Mr. Finlayson received his B.A.with honors in 1993 from Queen’s University and his LL.B. in 1999 from the University of British Columbia.