Tushara Weerasooriya

Practice Areas

Tushara is a partner in the Firm’s Restructuring and Insolvency Group. Her practice is focused on the transactional aspects of reorganizations under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, receiverships, workouts, and distressed M&A transactions. She acts for a wide range of clients, including debtors, secured lenders, hedge funds, private equity firms, purchasers and court officers. Tushara has advised on numerous high-profile and complex domestic, cross-border and international restructuring proceedings. An experienced deal lawyer, Tushara also frequently represents private equity firms and financial institutions in a variety of financing transactions, including secured lending, sponsored finance and debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing. She is the secretary for the Insolvency Section of the International Bar Association and an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Law School. A dedicated promoter of diversity initiatives both inside and outside the firm, Tushara chairs McMillan’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Council. She also chairs McMillan’s Strategic Planning Group and is a member of the board of partners.