Natasha MacParland

Natasha MacParland is a partner in the Toronto office of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, where she provides clients with solutions for their high-end insolvency and restructuring challenges. She advises on a broad variety of debt-restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency, corporate debtor/creditor rights enforcement, turnarounds, workouts, and plans of arrangement under the Companies’ CreditorsArrangement Act. Ms. MacParland has advised on many significant and groundbreaking restructurings and insolvencies. She is frequently consulted for strategic advice and risk analysis on deal-structuring and lending, and she regularly acts for a number of North America’s best-known private-equity firms in their acquisitions of distressed entities and participation in distressed sales and investor solicitation processes. Ms. MacParland is a longstanding board member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada. She isa member of ABI, the Insolvency Institute of Canada, INSOL International, the International InsolvencyAssociation, the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation, the Ontario Bar Association and the Turnaround Management Association. Ms. MacParland has been listed in ChambersGlobal, Chambers Canada and the IFLR1000, among others, and she received the Turnaround Management Association’s Women of Excellence Award, Today’s Leader in 2019. She received her B.A. in political science and commerce in 1994 from Memorial University of Newfoundland and her LL.B. in1997 from Dalhousie University.