Bryan C. Gibbons

Bryan acts primarily for institutional lenders and other creditors with respect to insolvency matters including reorganizations under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act, security realization and creditor remedies. Bryan also acts for accounting firms in their capacity as bankruptcy trustees, receivers and monitors in reorganizations.

Recently, Bryan has represented various institutional lenders in diverse realizations from hotels and condominium developments to equipment dealerships and manufacturers.

Also, Bryan has recently represented institutional lenders with respect to a variety of fraud matters.

Professional Activities

• Canadian Bar Association, Insolvency Sub-section, British Columbia Branch, Past Chair
• B.C. Insolvency Discussion Group, Current Member and Past Executive, Member

Bar Admissions

• British Columbia (1991)

Education

• University of British Columbia (B.Comm., 1987)
• University of British Columbia (J.D., 1990)

• Acting for a major Canadian bank with respect to the completion and sale of an insolvent multi-unit development project
• Acting for a court appointed receiver manager of a large vehicle leasing company involving the tracing of missing vehicles and proceeds comingled by various corporate entities
• Acting for a major Canadian bank in a receivership and securing the dismissal of allegations by the trustee in bankruptcy that the Bank participated in a conspiracy to defeat unsecured creditors
• Acting for a major Canadian bank with respect to a bank employee fraud and the execution of Anton pillar orders and a mareva injunction
• Acting for a receiver manager of a large logging contractor on Vancouver Island
• Acting for a receiver manager of a company involving a multi-million dollar fraud by the principal against the secured creditor