Lawyer Profile
Kyle Kashuba
Calgary, Alberta
Overview
An accomplished insolvency and restructuring counsel with experience across Canada and the U.S., and a strong corporate and commercial litigation practice, Kyle combines skilled advocacy and deep technical ability to support clients in their most significant insolvency disputes.
Kyle’s practice focuses on disputes, insolvencies and restructurings across Canada and the U.S., with an emphasis on financial insolvency and corporate restructuring in the oil and gas sector. Kyle brings a wealth of experience in commercial litigation and corporate disputes, having acted on numerous major matters involving the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, receivership proceedings, international commercial arbitration, mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution involving distressed companies.
Kyle works closely with insolvency professionals and has represented many of them in their capacities as monitors, receivers and trustees. His experience also extends to representing secured and unsecured creditors, purchasers and prospective purchasers, and financially challenged public and private corporations. He was notably appointed as amicus curiae counsel to the Court of Appeal of Alberta in a complex insolvency case.
Beyond insolvency and restructuring matters, Kyle also represents clients in major contractual disputes, shareholder disputes, franchise litigation, judgment-debt enforcements, builder’s lien and construction claims, and the defence of professional negligence claims.
Torys is acting as counsel to Alvarez & Marsal in its capacity as court-appointed receiver and manager of all current and future assets, undertakings and properties of Picture Butte Feeder Cooperative, Alberta's largest feeder cooperative, in its receivership proceedings under the Alberta Cooperatives Act
Westbrick Energy, as a major creditor to Calgary Oil & Gas Syndicate Group Ltd. and certain related entities, in its stalking horse bid for Calgary Oil & Gas as part of its sales process under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act
an ad hoc group of bondholders, owed more than C$800 million, in the restructuring proceedings of Dominion Diamond Mines ULC and certain affiliates under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, including the initial proposed US$186 million stalking horse bid by an affiliate of Dominion’s equity owner, The Washington Companies
PricewaterhouseCoopers in its capacity as Proposal Trustee and Trustee in Bankruptcy of Sequoia Resources Corp., an oil and gas exploration and production company operating in Western Canada, in its large claims and sale procedure under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, as well as in connection with a C$225 million lawsuit concerning substantially all of Sequoia's current oil and gas properties
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2006 (AB)