Mervyn D. Abramowitz

Mervyn has extensive experience in commercial litigation (including disputes involving contracts, negligence, and fiduciary obligations, corporate, partnership and shareholder disputes), commercial bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring matters, and employment litigation.

Mervyn has appeared before all levels of the trial and appellate courts of Ontario and is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Civil Litigation. He is currently the Treasurer of the Canadian Bar Association’s National Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Restructuring section, the Public Affairs Liaison for the Ontario Bar Association’s Civil Litigation section executive, as well as a member-at-large of the Ontario Bar Association’s Insolvency section executive, and a member of the Commercial List Users Committee.

Mervyn was an instructor for many years of the Ontario Bar Admission Course (Civil Litigation and Insolvency sections) and participates regularly in seminars to clients and business groups on various topics related to his areas of practice.

Notable Matters

• Counsel to a Tier 1 automobile parts supplier in a dispute involving parts suppliers withholding tools and parts destined for several OEM's

• Counsel to a pharmaceutical manufacturer in an action involving contaminated supplies

• Counsel to the court-appointed Monitor in the CCAA restructurings of Cotton Ginny, SAAN Stores, Steelback Breweries and D'Angelo Brands

• Counsel to the secured creditor who sought and obtained an order under the CCAA in respect of NexInnovations Inc.

• Counsel to creditors, nationally and internationally, in the cross-border CCAA restructurings of Vallefoam, Canwest, Angiotech, Huffy Bicycles, and Fantom Technologies

• Counsel to various secured and unsecured creditors in several court-appointed receiverships and bankruptcies in the high-tech and biotech spheres, including Botaneco, Seven Group Data Management Group, Sprint Network, Gloplug, RAM Computer, Questech, Genicom, The Baxter Group and others

• Counsel to a pharmaceutical manufacturer in a breach of contract action with international scope, involving several large foreign entities in Germany, Switzerland and the United States

Recent Speaking Engagements

• February 2013 - Speaker at the Law Society of Upper Canada's Commercial Priorities for Real Estate and Business Lawyers, on Vesting Orders In and Outside of an Insolvency (co-authored paper on topic)

• September 2012 – moderator of the judges panel at the annual Pan-Canadian Insolvency Law conference in Halifax, NS

• October 2011 – speaker at the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Six Minute Debtor/ Creditor and Insolvency Lawyer program on tenants’ rights and obligations in the case of an insolvent landlord (co-authored paper with Stephen Wolpert, Insolvent Landlords: Concerns of a Commercial Tenant)
• February 2013 - Speaker at the Law Society of Upper Canada's Commercial Priorities for Real Estate and Business Lawyers, on Vesting Orders In and Outside of an Insolvency (co-authored paper on topic)

• September 2011 - Co-chair of Canadian Bar Association Pan-Canadian Insolvency Law Conference, Toronto, and introduced key note speaker, Agathe Cote, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada

 Recent Published Works

• February 2013 - Vesting Orders In and Outside of an Insolvency
• October 2011 - Insolvent Landlords: Concerns of a Commercial Tenant