Natasha MacParland is a partner in the Corporate/Commercial and Financial Restructuring & Insolvency practices. She has experience in corporate and commercial law, with an emphasis on debt restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency, corporate debtor/creditor rights enforcement, turnarounds, work-outs, plans of arrangement under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, and proposals and bankruptcies under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act. Natasha provides strategic advice and risk analysis on deal structuring and lending. She has worked on various aspects of many significant and groundbreaking restructurings and insolvencies.

Representative Work

• Acted for Postmedia Network Inc. in the acquisition of the publishing business of Canwest LP under a sale proceeding conducted pursuant to the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act. The assets included the largest publisher of English-language newspapers in Canada as well as an extensive portfolio of digital media and online assets. The aggregate enterprise value of the assets was estimated to be $1.1 billion. Also acted throughout the CCAA proceedings for an Ad Hoc Committee of Noteholders, comprised of 18 investment funds, which held the majority of Canwest LP's outstanding indebtedness and which provided a $250 million equity commitment to permit the acquisition.
• Acted for Roman Corporation following its application to the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act for protection in January 2006, when its assets were sold to Forest Resources LLC.
• Acted for RSM Richter Inc. as monitor of MuscleTech Development Inc. under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and proceedings under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
• Acted for Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, as a shareholder and creditor of CFM Corporation, under Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and Chapter 11 proceedings involving CFM and its affiliates.
• Acted for Dura Automotive in its Canadian proceedings relating to a restructuring under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
• Acted for Ernst & Young Inc. as monitor of Quebecor World Inc. and its subsidiaries under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act and proceedings under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
• Acted as counsel to Newshore Financial and the conduits sponsored by it in connection with the restructuring of $7 billion of assets in the conduits as part of the recent restructuring of $32 billion of non-bank sponsored asset-backed commercial paper.

Recognition

• Recognized in Chambers Global's Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers for Business and Leaders in their Field in the area of Restructuring and Insolvency.
• Noted as a leading lawyer in IFLR 1000.
• Received Martindale-Hubbell’s BV rating.

Articles and Publications

Natasha has written and presented extensively on matters relating to financial restructuring and insolvency. She has written for publications, including The Lawyers Weekly, Annual Review of Insolvency Law – 2003, Annual Review of Insolvency Law – 2004 and Corporate Governance in Global Capital Markets.

Speaking Engagements

Natasha is a frequent speaker on insolvency matters. She has made presentations for the Canadian Institute. She was Chair of "Automotive Sector Insolvencies: The Shifting Paradigm" for the Ontario Bar Association in Toronto in 2008. Natasha was a speaker at the Insight Commercial Insolvency & Restructuring Conference in 2008. Natasha has been a speaker at the Osgoode Advanced Business Law Workshop on the subject of "Corporate Insolvency & Restructuring - Cross Border Issues".

Natasha was a speaker at the 6th Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference held in Banff in 2009 on the topic, "Widening the Lens: Creating New and Unwelcome Perspectives through the Oppression Remedy in CCAA Proceedings".

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