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Preet K. Gill

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Preet Gill is trusted by clients to develop novel solutions to complex litigation and transactional issues, with a focus on debt restructurings. She has been lauded for her legal acumen, analytical ability and subtle and strategic approach, which offer a distinct advantage to clients facing difficult legal problems.

As national co-head of the complex legal research and opinions group, Preet analyzes and finds solutions for intricate, novel and complex legal issues in transactional, litigation and insolvency and restructuring contexts, with a specific focus on CCAA and CBCA restructurings. She also prepares expert legal opinions and written advocacy, focusing on appellate-level facta, for lawyers and clients of the firm in numerous areas of practice.

Preet has been part of the Bennett Jones team representing various parties in a significant number of insolvency and restructuring proceedings, including: Calfrac Well Services, Stoneway Capital, Sears Canada, Payless Shoes, Concordia International, Danier Leather, Connacher Oil and Gas, Bumble Bee/Clover Leaf Seafoods, NCSG Crane & Heavy Haul Corporation, Target Canada, Bonavista Energy Corporation, Bellatrix Exportation and Nortel Networks.

Preet also has extensive experience in significant commercial, civil fraud and auditor liability cases, including Sino-Forest Corporation (both the CCAA proceedings and subsequent fraud trial) and Lavender v Miller Bernstein (Ontario Court of Appeal). She has appeared before all levels of Court.

In 2022, Preet was awarded the Lexpert Rising Star Award honouring leading lawyers under 40 in Canada, and has been frequently cited in Lexpert's Big Suits and Big Deals. She has also been named a Lexpert Leading Lawyer to Watch in Insolvency & Financial Restructuring.

Preet has been interviewed by Lexpert magazine in connection with numerous articles written on international class actions, by The Globe and Mail and The Lawyer's Daily on her work in connection with legal issues arising out of COVID-19 and by Canadian Lawyer for her expertise on the intersection of insolvency and directors' duties.

Preet serves as Chair of the Toronto Student Committee, overseeing all student recruitment and the student program for the Toronto office. She also sits on a number of other partnership committees at the firm, including the Opinions Committee and the Conflicts Committee. In addition to being a mentor at the firm, Preet is part of the mentoring program for the South Asian Bar Association and South Asian Women in the Law.

Preet is widely published in a number of publications, including the Annual Review of Insolvency Law, the National Creditor Debtor Review, the Banking & Finance Law Review, Ultimate Corporate Counsel Guide, The Lawyer's Daily, the Canadian Securities Law News, the Commercial Insolvency Reporter, the Federated Press Corporate Liability Journal, The Winston Report, the Corporate Securities and Financial Law Report, the Ontario Bar Association's Taxation Law Newsletter, the Federated Press Tax Litigation Journal and The Oatley-McLeish Guide to Personal Injury Practice in Motor Vehicle Cases. Preet is an author in Directors' Duties in Canada, 6th ed., published by CCH Canadian Limited.

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Augustana University/University of Alberta, BA, 2004, with distinction University of Ottawa, LLB, 2007, magna cum laude 

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Ontario, 2008

Expérience récente

Optiva Inc. before the Ontario Securities Commission in successfully resisting ESW Capital’s application for relief from the mandatory minimum tender requirement applicable to take-over bids under National Instrument 62-104 - Take-Over Bids and Issuer Bids.
Canadian counsel to Conagra Brands, Inc. in its $10.9-billion acquisition of Pinnacle Foods Inc.
Former auditors of Buckingham Securities, in the Superior Court of Justice and in the Ontario Court of Appeal in the successful defence of a class action, and in securing the dismissal of a negligence claim against the defendant accounting firm.
Her Majesty the Queen in Right of British Columbia, in health-care cost recovery litigation from the tobacco industry (HMTQ v. PMI).
SFC Litigation Trust, in a successful 15 week trial against the former CEO of Sino-Forest Corporation, Allen Chan, resulting in a judgment in fraud and breach of fiduciary duty of US$2.6 billion.
The Board of Directors of Sears Canada, in Sears' CCAA proceedings, one of the largest court-supervised liquidations in Canadian history.
South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario, as intervenor in an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in Attorney General of Canada on behalf the Republic of India v. Surjit Singh Badesha, et al.
The Government of Bermuda, as Chief Legal Advisor, in the redevelopment and 30 year operation of Bermuda's L.F. Wade International Airport.
Nortel Networks, representing bondholders with claims in excess of U.S. $4 billion in ongoing proceedings pursuant to the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.
Sino-Forest Corporation, in its application under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act, in which a plan of arrangement was approved by creditors and by the court within nine months after filing.
Sino-Forest Corporation, in defence of class actions, including claims asserted under Part XXIII.1 of the Ontario Securities Act.
Glencore International, in its acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Viterra for approximately $6.1 billion by way of a plan of arrangement and the sale of certain assets of Viterra to each of Agrium and Richardson International for aggregate proceeds of approximately $2.6 billion.
South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario, as intervener in an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in Commission Des Droits De La Personne et Des Droits De La Jeunesse v. Bombardier.
Access Cash General Partnership and its investors, as tax representation, in the sale of 100 per cent of the assets of EZEE ATM LP by Newport Partners Income Fund.
The Special Committee of Coventree Inc., in an investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission into the Canadian asset-backed commercial paper market - Re Coventree Inc., 2011LNONOSC 757 and Re Coventree Inc., 2011 LNONOSC 988.
Home Depot of Canada Inc., in its successful GST appeal before the Tax Court of Canada. 2008-1491(GST)G
Special counsel to Steeplejack Industrial Group Inc., in the $122-million acquisition by plan of arrangement by The Brock Group.
Research In Motion Limited, in the successful resolution of shareholder litigation connected to RIM's review of historical option practices. 

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The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
Leading Lawyers to Watch, Insolvency & Financial Restructuring - Insolvency Litigation
Leading Lawyers to Watch, Insolvency & Financial Restructuring - Financial Restructuring
Lexperts Rising Stars Leading Lawyers Under 40
Recognized as one of Canada's leading 40 lawyers under 40

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