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Linc Rogers

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Recent engagements in which Linc acted as lead or co-lead restructuring counsel include acting for:

  • LTL Management LLC in connection with its cross-border recognition proceedings (pharmaceutical/mass tort)

  • The court-appointed information officer in the cross-border recognition proceedings for Voyager Digital (crypto-currency)

  • The auditor in the CannTrust restructuring proceedings (cannabis/class action securities litigation)

  • The court-appointed information officer in the cross-border recognition proceedings of Knotel Inc. (real estate)

  • The UK incorporated All Saints USA in its cross-border recognition proceedings (retail)

  • syncreon Group B.V. and its Canadian affiliates in its cross-border recognition proceedings (logistics) (Turnaround Management Association International Company Transaction of the Year 2020)

  • The purchaser in the receivership proceedings of Genesis Integration (technology/reverse vesting order)

  • The purchaser in the restructuring proceedings of FIGR and Canada's Island Garden (cannabis/reverse vesting order)

  • The court-appointed monitor in the insolvency proceedings of JTI-Macdonald Corp. (manufacturing/mass tort)

Awards & Recognition

Linc is an experienced insolvency lawyer recognized in the following publications, particularly for his extensive Canada/U.S. cross-border work and lead role on large transactions:

  • The Best Lawyers in Canada – 2019–2024 (Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law)

  • Chambers Canada: Canada's Leading Lawyers for Business – 2019–2024 (Restructuring/Insolvency)

  • The Legal 500 Canada – 2021–2024 (Restructuring and Insolvency)

  • IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial and Corporate Law Firms – 2022–2023 (Restructuring and Insolvency)

  • The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada – 2020–2023 (Insolvency & Financial Restructuring)

  • Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business – 2020–2023 (Restructuring/Insolvency)

  • The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory – 2018–2023 (Insolvency and Financial Restructuring)

  • Who's Who Legal: Global – 2022–2023 (Restructuring & Insolvency)

  • Who's Who Legal: Canada – 2019–2023 (Restructuring & Insolvency)

  • Who's Who Legal: Thought Leaders – 2021–2023 (Restructuring & Insolvency)

  • Benchmark Canada: The Definitive Guide to Canada's Leading Litigation Firms and Attorneys 2021

  • Lexpert Magazine, November/December 2012 (named a "Lexpert Rising Star," honouring Canada's leading lawyers under 40)
Professional Activities

Linc is a member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada, a limited-number, invitation-only association of Canada's most accomplished senior insolvency professionals, and serves on its Membership Committee. In addition, he is currently serving on the board of directors of the Toronto chapter of the Turnaround Management Association. He is also a member of the corporate advisory board of the Canadian Association of Urban Financial Professionals ("CAUFP") which is dedicated to the advancement of professionals of colour within the financial services industry.  Linc acts as CAUFP's pro bono counsel.

Publications
Professional Appearances
  • Panellist: Chapter 15 Update/Recognition Issues
    Caribbean Insolvency Symposium, American Bankruptcy Institute, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands, February 7, 2023.
  • Panellist: Restructuring and Insolvency: A Cross-Country Year in Review
    Blakes Business Class Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, January 17, 2023.
  • Panellist: Canada/U.S. Legal Update Seminar Series: Restructuring and Insolvency
    Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Webinar, September 22, 2022.
  • Moderator: Leap Forward: The Future of Work
    Annual Review of Insolvency Law Virtual Conference, February 4, 2022.
  • Co-chair: Annual Review of Insolvency Law Virtual Conference
    Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals, February 4, 2022.
  • Panellist: Insolvency and Technology
    Osgoode Bankruptcy & Insolvency Club Webinar, February 2, 2022.
  • Moderator: Restructuring 2022: National and International Trends
    Fireside chat with Mahesh Uttamchandani, Global Manager for Financial Inclusion & Infrastructure at the World Bank Group, Blakes Business Class Webinar, January 26, 2022.
  • Moderator: Paving the Way: Black Professionals on Corporate Boards
    Black@Blakes Webinar, November 10, 2021.
  • Panellist: Q3 2021: A (Not So) Quiet Quarter?
    Insolvency Insider Webinar, November 2021.
  • Speaker: Diversity in the Practise of Law
    Commercial List Users’ Committee Virtual Seminar, June 2, 2021.
  • Moderator: Moving Past the Pandemic
    TMA Toronto Virtual Symposium, Turnaround Management Association, May 27, 2021.
  • Panellist: Insolvency Sales Transactions, Process and Auctions
    Skilled Lawyers Series, Canadian Bar Association, January 28, 2021.
Media Activities
  • Interviewed: Hockey May Be Canada’s Sport but This Week Basketball Is a Slam Dunk for One Canadian Law Firm
    Article by Gail Cohen, Law.com International, March 14, 2023.
  • Interviewed: Annual ‘Blakes Madness’ basketball-themed networking social set for Thursday tipoff
    Article by Zena Olijnyk, Law Times, March 13, 2023.
  • Interviewed: Celebrating Black History Month
    Article by Talayah Goodlow, Turnaround Management Association, March 2023.
  • Quoted: Pandemic takes a bite out of celebrity chef Mark McEwan’s culinary empire
    Article by Barbara Shecter, Financial Post, October 8, 2021.
  • Interviewed: Walking the Walk
    Journal of Corporate Renewal, September 2021.
  • Quoted: Cannabis producer secures CCAA plan
    Article by Dominic Lawson, Global Restructuring Review, July 20, 2021.
  • Quoted: Why more companies are turning to reverse vesting orders, especially in the cannabis sector
    Article by Jaren Kerr, The Globe and Mail, May 24, 2021.
Education

Admitted as a Foreign Legal Consultant in the State of Illinois – 2005
Admitted to the Ontario Bar – 2000
LLB (Magna Cum Laude), University of Ottawa – 1998
MA, International Affairs, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs – 1998
BA, Political Science, University of Alberta – 1994

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