Jenna Willis, Calgary

About Jenna

Jenna's restructuring practice includes distressed mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, financial restructurings, debtor-in-possession (DIP) financings and security enforcement in formal insolvency proceedings and through informal work-outs. Jenna has been an advisor on a number of significant cross-border and domestic restructuring matters in a broad cross-section of industries. Jenna also provides advice on general corporate and commercial matters.

Jenna advises foreign and domestic secured and unsecured creditors, lenders, debtor companies, purchasers, receivers, court-appointed monitors, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders impacted by various insolvency proceedings. As a member of the Blakes U.S. initiative team, Jenna relocated to the U.S. from 2013 to 2014 and focused on Canada/U.S. cross-border transactions.

Select Experience

Recent engagements on the public record of significance in which Jenna had a central role include representing:

The purchaser in the insolvency proceedings of Herbal Magic Inc.
The secured creditor in the cross-border insolvency proceedings of CPI Portrait Studios
Terrace Bay Pulp Inc. in the sale of its business and assets under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA)
The receiver in the United Silver Corp. receivership proceedings
The purchaser in the CCAA proceedings of The John Forsyth Shirt Company
The secured creditor in the Fletcher Leisure Group Inc. cross-border receivership proceedings
The DIP and secured lenders in the Northstar Aerospace cross-border restructuring proceedings under the CCAA
The interim receiver, receiver and trustee in bankruptcy in the insolvency proceedings and sale of the Kraus carpet companies
The receiver in the insolvency proceedings and sale of The Rosseau Resort Developments Inc.
An aircraft lessor and tour operator in the receivership of Skyservice Airlines Inc.