Robin Schwill is a partner whose practice focuses primarily on corporate turnarounds, work-outs, and restructurings; distressed asset sales and acquisitions; debtor-in-possession financings; secured and unsecured creditor rights enforcement; and all facets of Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act proceedings.  He has also been involved with a number of private merger and acquisition transactions and a variety of secured lending matters. Robin has gained a broad and deep perspective in such engagements by having represented players from every angle, including: debtors, boards, purchasers, secured creditors, unsecured creditors, private and court-appointed receivers, interim receivers, monitors and trustees in bankruptcy.

Recent public company restructurings that Robin has been directly involved with include Stelco, Ivaco, Slater Steel, Air Canada, AT&T Canada, Canadian Airlines and SAMSys Technologies.

Robin is an expert on financial statement disclosure and transparency issues having been an award-wining lecturer on this topic for over 15 years in the MBA program at York University’s Schulich School of Business. He currently continues to lecture on this topic for the Schulich Executive Education Centre. In this area, Robin is an adviser and occasional contributor to Canadian Business magazine and has been interviewed numerous times on financial accounting issues for ROB/TV (now BNN), CanadaAM, The Globe & Mail and Radio Canada International. Robin has also been a lecturer in finance and commercial law courses for the Credit Institute of Canada, and has delivered a number of industry seminars on the topic of financial statement disclosure and transparency issues.

Robin is currently serving his second term as Chair of the Insolvency Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association and has been a member of the Insolvency Law Section Executive for over 10 years. He has also written and presented extensively on insolvency and restructuring issues for the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals, Insolvency News, The Law Society of Upper Canada, The Lawyers Weekly, Osgoode Hall Law School Professional Development Programs, The Canadian Institute, the National Insolvency Review and the Banking & Finance Law Review.

Robin is currently a director of The Boulevard Club Limited and serves as chair of that board’s governance committee.

Robin received his B.B.A. and M.B.A. from York University’s Schulich School of Business in 1990 and 1991, respectively, and his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1994. Robin joined Davies as a partner in 2007.

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