Danish Afroz

Lenders, investors, companies, and court-appointed officers trust Danish to navigate complex restructuring and insolvency matters where competing interests, tight timelines, and significant financial exposure require clear judgment and commercially grounded advice. With a background in business, he brings a results-focused approach to mandates involving multiple stakeholders, distressed assets and complex recovery issues. His experience includes lender-side recovery work, including matters where loans are secured by real property, as well as reverse vesting order transactions and other creative restructuring solutions. Clients rely on him to manage complex files, assess risk, and develop strategies that are both legally sound and commercially practical.

Danish’s practice focuses on corporate restructurings, receiverships, security enforcement, and distressed transactions. He acts for debtors, secured and unsecured creditors, financial institutions, purchasers and court-appointed officers. His experience includes mandates involving bankruptcies, proposals, receiverships, debtor-in-possession financings, security enforcement, and distressed M&A, as well as complex corporate restructurings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA). He advises Canadian and international clients across sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, retail, renewable energy, mining, cannabis, technology, transportation, logistics, and real estate.

Before joining the firm, Danish practiced at a national law firm in Toronto, where he was involved in significant Canadian and cross-border restructurings. Danish has also been recognized in Best Lawyers as “Ones to Watch in Canada™ 2025 & 2026” for his work in Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law.

• Called to Bar in Ontario in 2014
• Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.B. (2013)
• Schulich School of Business, M.B.A. (2013)
• University of Toronto (2009)

• Member, Ontario Bar Association

Danish’s recent public engagements include:

• Counsel to Iovate Health Sciences International Inc. (debtor) in the CCAA proceedings of Iovate Health Sciences International Inc.
• Counsel to TDB Restructuring Limited (Receiver) in the receivership proceedings of Jake’s House Community Residences
• Counsel to Heritage Cannabis Holdings Corp. (debtor) in the CCAA proceedings of Heritage Cannabis Holdings Corp.
• Counsel to Grant Thornton Limited (Receiver) in the receivership proceedings of HOHS Drugs Limited
• Counsel to Bank of Montreal (secured creditor) in the CCAA proceedings of The Second Cup Coffee Company Inc.
• Counsel to Freedom Cannabis Inc. (debtor) in the CCAA proceedings of Freedom Cannabis Inc.
• Counsel to KingSett Mortgage Corporation (secured creditor) in the receivership proceedings of the Cresford Group (33 Yorkville Residence Inc.)
• Counsel to Roberts Company Canada Limited (debtor) in the CCAA proceedings of Roberts Company Canada Limited
• Counsel to Ernst & Young Inc. (Monitor) in the CCAA proceedings of Stelco (formerly U.S. Steel Canada Inc.)
• Counsel to Grant Thornton Limited (Receiver) in the receivership proceedings of Chieftain Metals Inc.
• Counsel to SunEdison Canada (debtor) in the CCAA proceedings of SunEdison Canada
• Counsel to B.E.S.T Active 365 Fund LP et al. (secured creditor) in the receivership proceedings of Intelligent Mechatronic Systems and Ridetones
• Counsel to SecureCare Capital Inc. (debtor) in the BIA proposal proceedings of SecureCare Capital Inc.