Description
Gerry  Apostolatos is a partner with our firm and a strategic advisor. Clients appreciate his ability to develop innovative and tailored solutions for various business problems. He is known as a seasoned litigator in commercial and corporate matters and has acted before all court levels including the Supreme Court of Canada.

Over the years, Gerry has developed a meaningful expertise in commercial disputes which allows him to offer legal and strategic advice in a wide array of legal matters.

A leading specialist in the area of insolvency and corporate restructuring, he has also advised a multitude of stakeholders in this field.

Recently, Gerry acted as co-counsel for an intervening shareholder in the BCE matter (one of the most important pieces of commercial litigation in Canadian history from a financial perspective) before the Supreme Court of Canada.

His lengthy involvement with the Canadian Bar Association led him to become President of the Canadian Bar Association, Quebec Division, a member of the Executive as well as a voting member of the National Council of the Canadian Bar Association.

Until recently, he was Chair of the Liaison Committee of the Bar of Montreal with the Commercial Division of the Superior Court of Montréal. He is an active member of the Executive of the Business Law Section in the Quebec Division of the Canadian Bar Association. He has also been a member of the Disciplinary Board of the Quebec Bar.

Three years ago, above and beyond his numerous activities within the business and legal communities, Gerry climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for the benefit of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Quebec.

Associations & Achievements
Canadian Forum on Civil Justice

Governor of the Quebec Bar Foundation

Member of the Committee which developed the Guide of Best Practices in litigation matters for the Bar of Montreal

Insolvency lawyer of the year
"Le Monde Juridique"

Martindale-Hubbell-Granting of BV Rating which identifies a lawyer with very high legal ability, exemplary professional expertise, experience and stature

Former Chair of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Sections - Canadian Bar Association
National and Quebec Division

Member of the Special Committee of the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Section of the Canadian Bar Association on the amendments proposed by Justice Canada to the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and to the CCAA

Participation in public consultations on the second series of proposed legislative amendments concerning the harmonisation of federal law with the civil law of the Province of Quebec

Former President and Chair of the Executive Committee - Hellenic Board of Trade of Metropolitain Montréal

Canadian Bar Association

American Bankruptcy Institute

INSOL International

Turnaround Management Association

Canadian Insolvency Foundation
 
Presentations & Conferences
Gerry  Apostolatos is the co-founder of the first Pan-Canadian Conference of the Canadian Bar Association on Insolvency and Restructuring Law held annually since 2005 and which he co-chaired for three consecutive years

Gerry has acted as Chair of the Bar of Montreal Subcommittee on the development of a standard Anton Piller order

Sought after as a speaker, he has given several presentations, namely relating to arbitration, multi-jurisdictional insolvency files, legal developments in bankruptcy and insolvency , the United States Bankruptcy Code and various aspects of cross-border files. He has also taught bankruptcy and insolvency at the Quebec Bar School

In 2008, he gave a conference on Quebec and Ontario jurisprudence in insolvency matters for the Canadian Bar Association at the national level

In 2009, he organized and presented at a Symposium of the Canadian Bar Association, Quebec Division, in cooperation with the Faculty of Law of McGill University, regarding the Supreme Court of Canada judgment  in the BCE matter

Publications
2006 - Lawyers Weekly (Farley retirement will be felt by Bankruptcy Bar across Canada)

2006 - Lawyers Weekly (How does bankruptcy law address the breakdown of a "Ponzi" scheme)

2005 - Lawyers Weekly (SCC case settles debate about equitable set-off in Quebec)

2001 - International Insolvency Law Reform,  National Insolvency Review (Canada)

Representative mandates
Joint liquidators of Stanford International Bank Limited
Counsel in an international liquidation of a bank.

Confidential Client
Counsel in an international commercial arbitration governed by the Rules of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce

Kawasaki Rail Car, Inc.
Counsel regarding a purchase of assets in an insolvency context for an international company in the transport industry

Remer
Counsel in a complex shareholders' dispute

Barclays Bank
Counsel assisting in the preparation of an expert report on Quebec Civil Law and filed in Ontario litigation relating to credit default swaps

Confidential Client
Counsel in an arbitration relating to the interpretation of commercial contracts in the natural gas industry

General Dynamics, an American multinational
Counsel in litigation resulting from a contract of purchase of shares in the munitions industry

IHI, a Japanese multinational
Counsel in an injunction matter in the energy and industrial equipment sector

Doctors Without Borders
Counsel and advisor on questions relating to private international law 

Confidential Client
Counsel for a Sheik from the Middle East in a litigation matter in the aeronautics industry

White Birch Paper
Counsel for three pension committees of non-unionized employees in a reorganization scenario

BCE
Co-counsel of an intervening shareholder before the Supreme Court of Canada

Quebecor World Inc.
Counsel with respect to multiple legal issues affecting the interests of the US Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors

Jetsgo
Counsel for eight Canadian airport authorities and TELUS  in an insolvency matter

Intercanadien
Counsel for Aéroports de Montréal before all court levels, including the Supreme Court of Canada, in a commercial litigation matter