Nick Hollard

Associate

Toronto
[email protected]
416.367.6545 x16545

Nick's practice focuses on insolvency and restructuring, with a special focus on proceedings under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act. Nick has acted for a variety of clients, including debtor corporations, creditors, financial institutions, court-appointed monitors, receivers, and proposal trustees.

Nick has experience in a diverse range of sectors such as mining, insurance, manufacturing, cannabis, construction, healthcare, energy, hospitality & tourism, and land development.

Nick regularly appears before the Commercial List of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, and has also appeared before the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Prior to specializing in insolvency, Nick maintained a broad commercial litigation practice.

Experience

  • Acting for Purdue Canada in connection with the cross-border recognition proceedings under Part IV of the Companies Creditors' Arrangement Act of the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy proceedings of Purdue Pharma L.P. (Purdue U.S.) and 23 other debtors in which Canadian Provincial Governments filed claims with an aggregate claim value of US$67.4 billion.
  • Acting for The Fuller Landau Group in its capacity as proposal trustee in the BIA proposal proceedings of iSpan Systems LP, a limited partnership formed pursuant to the Limited Partnership Act (Ontario). iSPAN engineers, manufactures, and installs proprietary cold-formed steel floor joists and framing systems for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings.
  • Acting for Grant Thornton Limited in its capacity as court appointed monitor of Rambler Metals in CCAA proceedings commenced in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Professional Involvement

  • Member, Law Society of Ontario
  • Member, Ontario Bar Association
  • Member, Toronto Lawyers’ Association
  • Member, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb)

Community Involvement

  • Volunteer, LAWS (Law in Action Within Schools)

Bar Admission & Education

  • Ontario, 2021
  • BCL/JD, McGill University, 2020
  • BBA (Hons.), Brock University, 2017