Lawyer Profile
Waël Rostom
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Waël Rostom is a highly accomplished restructuring and insolvency lawyer, advising on numerous high-profile Canadian, US and European restructuring proceedings. He advises on complex corporate reorganizations as well as workouts, distressed M&A transactions, receiverships and bankruptcies.
Waël has acted for publicly traded companies, directors and officers, shareholders, banks, financial institutions, hedge funds, private equity funds, asset-based lenders, customers and suppliers in domestic and cross-border proceedings. He also advises privately appointed and court appointed receivers, court appointed monitors and trustees in bankruptcy.
A talented finance lawyer, Waël frequently acts for clients in lending transactions, debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing and distressed loans, and other forms of distressed investing. Waël has extensive experience in the banking, manufacturing and mining industries.
Waël is recognized by Chambers Canada as a leading lawyer in the area of restructuring / insolvency, by the Best Lawyers in Canada as a leading lawyer in insolvency and financial restructuring law and by Lexpert in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Guide in the area of Insolvency & Restructuring: Financial Restructuring. He is a member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada and leads the firm’s Restructuring & Insolvency Group nationally.
Waël has acted for clients in the following additional public restructuring and insolvency matters:
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2000 (ON)