Overview

Robin excels at identifying the critical issues in restructuring and insolvency proceedings and finding deal-oriented solutions. Clients value his pragmatic advice, with one client saying Robin “strikes a true balance between being a lawyer and a business professional.”

Clients in diverse industries trust Robin’s solid and focused advice on their corporate turnarounds, work-outs and restructurings, distressed asset sales and acquisitions, debtor-in-possession financings, and secured and unsecured creditor rights enforcement. They rely on Robin’s wealth of experience in dealing with multinational deals and appreciate his ability to keep a discussion on track.

Robin is known for his expertise in designing creative and novel processes – including under all facets of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act proceedings – to bring matters to a successful resolution.

Acting for Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation in its proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.

Acted for Wexford Capital LP, the largest shareholder of Mako Mining Corp., in connection with Wexford’s acquisition of Golden Vertex Corp., the owner and operator of the Moss gold mine in Arizona, through a Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act insolvency proceeding in Canada and related Chapter 15 proceeding in the United States, and its subsequent sale of Golden Vertex to Mako.

Acted for KSV Restructuring Inc. in its role as proposal trustee pursuant to Notices of Intentions filed by YG Limited Partnership and YSL Residences Inc., developer of Yonge Street Living Residences.

Acting as special tax and insolvency counsel for Gotham Green Partners, LLC, a New York-based private equity firm focused on global cannabis and cannabis-related enterprises, in the first successful restructuring of a Canadian cannabis company, iAnthus Capital Holdings, Inc., by way of a corporate plan of arrangement.

Acted for Fulcrum Capital Partners Inc. and some of its related entities in the context of G.I. Sportz's restructuring under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, utilizing the relatively rare foreign recognized Canadian receivership proceedings to implement a cross-border asset sale to the purchaser of secured debt.

Practice Areas

• Bankruptcy & Insolvency

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1996 (ON)