Derek Church

Derek has experience advising corporate clients and their stakeholders in both informal and formal restructurings. His most recent experience consists of a director role, internal to a lending institution, assisting the organization in restructuring their complex distressed accounts in Western Canada.

Derek has advised on and executed in the following situations:

• senior secured facility restructuring and workouts
• syndicated credit facility restructuring and workouts
• distressed lending and refinancing
• distressed going concern sale
• informal restructuring and turnaround advisory
• lender advisory
• Companies Credit Arrangement Act (CCAA) proceedings
• Division 1 Proposals under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA)
• court-appointed and private-appointment receiverships
• corporate bankruptcies

His experience is across a wide range of industries. With a focus on Alberta and Western Canada, his deepest expertise is in the energy & resources sector—specifically oil and gas. Other industry experience includes, real estate (commercial, industrial, multi-family and hospitality), mining and resource extraction, logistics and transportation, manufacturing and automotive.