Ian E. Aversa

First Year of Call
2008

Areas of Practice
Financial Services

Description
Ian Aversa is a partner and member of the firm’s Financial Services, Litigation and Technology Groups.

Ian works with his clients to develop sophisticated acquisition, divestiture and recovery strategies, negotiate complex commercial agreements and financings, manage and strategize time-sensitive litigation matters and deliver business-focused solutions to a broad range of corporate and commercial issues.

Ian maintains an active restructuring and insolvency law practice focused on the corporate and litigation aspects of financial restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and distressed lending. He has been involved in many of Canada’s largest restructuring proceedings and is frequently retained to act for court officers appointed under the BIA, the CCAA and other corporate statutes.

Ian also has significant experience negotiating the purchase and sale of distressed assets and businesses and structuring DIP financing and other distressed lending transactions.

Ian co-leads a team at the firm that represents large technology companies in civil litigation and regulatory proceedings involving issues concerning privacy and data protection, cybersecurity, defamation and intermediary liability. The team also advises technology companies with navigating Canadian privacy and data production laws as they apply to new and existing products, and developing policies and tailored programs for the evolving Canadian market.

Ian advises corporations, Schedule I banks and other financial institutions, court-appointed officers, secured creditors and bondholders, landlords, purchasers and financiers on domestic and international matters in a variety of industries, with a particular focus on financial services, technology, social media, retail, transportation, real estate, construction, mining and health care.

Ian regularly appears as counsel before Toronto’s Commercial List Court, well-known for both restructuring matters and complex business disputes.

Ian has authored a number of publications and is often called on to speak at industry conferences. He is the Past Chair of the National Insolvency Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and the Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Beaver Valley Ski Club.

In 2019, Ian was recognized by Lexpert as one of the leading lawyers under 40 in Canada.