Patrick T McCarthy KC

Practice Areas

Domestic and cross-border insolvency. Represents court officers, debtors, creditors and other stakeholders in domestic and international insolvencies and restructurings. Responsible for managing and setting direction on large, complex restructurings and insolvencies. Representative cases: counsel for bondholders in Confederation Treasury Services Ltd., Monitors’ counsel in Canadian Airlines, Bre-X, Mirant Canada, Calpine Canada and SEMGroup cross-border reorganizations. Debtor's counsel in Canadian Superior Energy and Gasfrac Energy Services restructurings. Purchaser’s counsel in Poseidon Concepts.

Career

Appointed KC, 1998. Alberta Bar, 1976.

Professional Memberships

Fellow, American College of Bankruptcy; Member and Past President, Insolvency Institute of Canada; Member, International Insolvency Institute.

Publications

Has prepared papers for and participated in programs and conferences for numerous organizations, including the American Bankruptcy Institute, the IIC, the III, the Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Practitioners, the Legal Education Society of Alberta, and the Canadian Bar Association’s Alberta branch.

Co-Author, with Evelyn H. Biery, of “Treatment of Forward Contracts in Insolvency Cases: A Comparison of U.S. and Canadian Law,” Annual Review of Insolvency Law v.2, 2004.

Contributing Editor, Annual Review of Insolvency Law, 2003-present.

Personal

Instructor, “Insolvency and Restructuring” course, University of Calgary Faculty of Law, 2008

Instructor, “Insolvency and Restructuring” course, University of Windsor Faculty of Law, 2005 and 2007

Instructor, “Advocacy” and “Interviewing, Negotiating and Counselling” courses, University of Calgary Faculty of Law 1980-90