Derek Church

Derek Church is a Managing Director with the Restructuring practice at GlassRatner. His practice focuses on corporate restructuring and financial advisory services.

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.