Kyle Plunkett

Practice Areas

Kyle is a member of Aird & Berlis's Financial Services and Insolvency & Restructuring Groups. He divides his time between commercial restructuring matters and asset-based lending and structured finance work, developing a broad practice built on providing practical solutions to complex problems. With a diverse background, including time spent working in banking and finance, Kyle has the experience to provide clients guidance beyond the scope of traditional legal advice.

Kyle’s insolvency and restructuring practice encompasses both the litigation and commercial aspects of turnarounds, reorganizations, liquidations, security enforcement, receiverships and plans of arrangement in the context of formal and informal restructuring proceedings. With particular experience in all areas of Canadian insolvency and restructuring proceedings and transactions, Kyle has acted for and advised secured and unsecured creditors, debtor-in-possession lenders, debtors, suppliers, boards of directors, chief restructuring officers, purchasers, receivers, interim receivers, Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act monitors and bankruptcy trustees. He regularly advises parties on issues relating to reorganizations under the CCAA, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Canada Business Corporations Act.

On the corporate and commercial lending side of his practice, Kyle regularly advises and acts for a number of Canada’s largest banks and several alternative asset-based lenders. His lending and finance experience includes asset-based, securitized, structured finance, syndicated, secured, mezzanine and subordinated debt, both domestic and cross-border, transactions.

Kyle is also a member of the firm's Associates Committee and is actively involved in the firm’s student and associate mentorship programs. Learn more about Kyle's practice here: https://www.airdberlis.com/people/bio/kyle-b-plunkett