Brendan D. O’Neill

First Year of Call
Ontario

Areas of Practice
Restructuring & Insolvency

Description
Brendan O’Neill is a partner in the Restructuring Group, a head of the Restructuring Group, and a member of the Executive Committee at Goodmans. The Restructuring Group is consistently and widely recognized as Canada’s best and leading corporate restructuring practice.

Brendan has extensive experience in leading domestic, cross-border and transnational corporate restructuring transactions and refinancings, including CCAA and CBCA corporate restructurings, and other forms of cross-border restructurings, out-of-court restructurings and workouts, mass tort restructurings, strategic bankruptcy-based acquisitions, bankruptcy-based litigation and near-insolvency investing scenarios. Brendan regularly leads or co-leads the firm’s representation of debtor companies, secured and unsecured lenders, bondholders and creditors, official and unofficial creditors’ committees, key shareholders and leading private equity firms and other strategic investors focused on distressed situations.

Brendan joined Goodmans in 2005 from the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York, where he practiced U.S. bankruptcy and restructuring law for several years.