Tushara Weerasooriya

Partner


Toronto

Tel : 416.865.7262
Fax : 416.865.7048

Email : tushara.weerasooriya@mcmillan.ca
VCard : vcard

Professional Experience Tushara is a Partner in the firm's Restructuring and Insolvency Group. Her practice involves all aspects of insolvency law including reorganizations, bankruptcies, receiverships, workouts, the purchase and sale of distressed businesses, lending transactions and DIP financing.

Tushara has been involved in many high profile domestic and cross-border restructuring proceedings including Canwest Limited Partnership, Quebecor World Inc. (World Color Press), Indalex Limited, Pliant Corporation and Masonite International. She also has significant experience with automotive insolvencies and has advised banks, OEMs and part suppliers in connection with several automotive restructurings.

Tushara is a member of the Ontario Bar Association's Insolvency Law Section Executive. She is a co-chair of the Insolvency Section's Annual Passport Seminar Series and was a co-chair of the OBA Institute's Insolvency Law Program in 2011.

Tushara is recognized in Chambers Global 2012 as a leading lawyer in the area of Restructuring/Insolvency.

publications and presentations
June 01, 2011
Recent Development in Insolvency & Financial Restructuring
The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2011
February 2011
Marshalling: A Remedy for a Junior Creditor
Commercial Priorities for Real Estate and Business Lawyers 2011
The Law Society of Upper Canada
February 2011
The Use of Releases in CCAA Restructuring Proceedings: How Wide is the Net?
Co-Authored: Adam C. Maerov, Tushara Weerasooriya and Ahsan Mirza
Developments in Insolvency and Restructuring Law and Practice Over the Past Year and Emerging Trends, Ontario Bar Association
January 2011
Insolvency and Financial Restructuring: Recent Developments of Importance
The 2011 Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada


  • restructuring
  • financial services

  • Member of the Executive of the Ontario Bar Association's Insolvency Law Section
  • International Women's Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
Called to the Ontario bar - 2005

Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB - 2004

Queen's University, B.Sc.H. (first class) - 2000