Ian Aversa

Ian Aversa is a partner and member of the Financial Services Group and the Litigation Group at Aird & Berlis.

Ian works with his clients to develop sophisticated acquisition, divestiture and recovery strategies, negotiate complex commercial agreements and financings, manage and strategize time-sensitive litigation matters and deliver business-focused solutions to a broad range of corporate and commercial issues.

Ian maintains an active restructuring and insolvency law practice focused on the corporate and litigation aspects of financial restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and distressed lending. He has been involved in some of Canada’s largest restructuring proceedings and is frequently retained to act for court officers appointed under the BIA, the CCAA and other corporate statutes. Ian also has significant experience negotiating the purchase and sale of distressed assets and businesses and structuring DIP financing and other distressed lending transactions.

Ian regularly appears as counsel before Toronto’s Commercial List, well-known and respected for both restructuring matters and complex business disputes.

Ian advises corporations, Schedule I banks and other financial institutions, court-appointed officers, secured creditors and bondholders, landlords, purchasers and financiers on domestic and international matters in a variety of industries, with a particular focus on financial services, technology, social media, retail, transportation, real estate, construction, mining and health care.

A frequent writer and presenter, Ian has authored a number of publications and is often called on to speak at industry conferences. Ian is the Communications Officer of the National Insolvency Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and the Chair of the Insolvency Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association.

In 2019, Ian was recognized by Lexpert as one of the leading lawyers under 40 in Canada.