Doug Nishimura

Doug Nishimura is a Calgary-based Partner whose practice focuses on debt recovery. He represents clients throughout Canada who are facing complex debt recovery litigation, financial restructuring disputes and other related business matters. These matters often involve the purchase or sale of distressed assets in a court-approved restructuring or receivership and at times, through a bidding process.

Doug has extensive experience representing the full range of parties involved in debt recovery disputes and restructuring proceedings, including corporate debtors, large and small financial institutions and secured lenders, unsecured creditors on an individual and collective basis, shareholders of insolvent corporations, trustees, monitors, receivers and other court-appointed officers and counterparties of insolvent corporations.

Doug is a strong advocate for companies and individuals who are experiencing serious financial difficulties and need to restructure or protect themselves against creditors. He handles a broad range of formal insolvency and financial restructuring matters and proceedings, including:

• Bankruptcy and receivership
• Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) proceedings
• Recovery of debt and protection from creditors
• Enforcement of securities
• Negotiation of forbearance and informal restructuring processes
• Purchases of assets in insolvency proceedings

Doug identifies and resolves matters involving secured transactions, such as priority disputes, preference claims, trusts, fiduciary obligations, fiduciary claims and fraud actions. He also advises clients on matters relating to investor actions, fraud investigation and recovery, injunctions and corporate and commercial dispute resolution.