Kyle is Co-Leader of the firm's Banking & Finance and Restructuring & Insolvency Groups and a member of the Financial Services Group. 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.
Other Languages
French
Professional Involvement
Memberships
- Canadian Bar Association
- Secretary (Sections), Insolvency Law Section Executive, Ontario Bar Association
- Toronto Lawyers Association
- Turnaround Management Association
- Ireland-Canada Chamber of Commerce
Panellist, "Blurring the Lines for Creditors, Investors and Equityholders: Allocation and Consolidation Issues in Complex Corporate Structures," 22nd Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference, February 7, 2025.
Presenter, "The Nuts and Bolts of Secured Lending," Presentation to Ontario Ministry of Finance, September 11, 2024.
Panellist, "Q4 2023: Governance Receivers, WEPPA & Subordinated Deemed Trusts," Insolvency Insider Webinar, February 2024.
Panellist, "The Role of In-House Counsel During a Recession," Law Society of Ontario: 13th In-House Counsel Summit, February 16, 2023.
Co-Author (with Robb English), "Limited Partnerships in Crisis: A Bridging Too Far," Annual Review of Insolvency Law, 2024.
Co-Author, "Creditors Rejoice: Ontario Court of Appeal Confirms Summary Judgment Is ‘Tailor-Made’ to Enforce Liquidated Claims," Aird & Berlis LLP Litigation Bulletin, May 7, 2024.
"Clarity in Appeal Procedures Part II: The BIA Prevails – or Does It?," Aird & Berlis Financial Services Flash, April 10, 2019. Republished in Banking & Finance Law Review, July 2019.