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Michael N. W. Baigel FCA (UK), FIPA, CIRP, LIT

Michael Baigel is the President of Baigel Corp. in Toronto. Michael provides creative corporate recovery expertise gained from his experience of rescuing hundreds of businesses over three decades in both Canada and the UK. Saving businesses, jobs and families drives him on. Michael is a federally Licensed Insolvency Trustee in Canada; a Chartered Insolvency and Restructuring Professional, Canada; a Fellow of the Chartered Accountants in England & Wales; a Fellow of the Insolvency Practitioners Association (UK) and has a BA (Honours) degree in Economics. Outside of work, Michael’s passion is soccer, and particularly Manchester United.

Gus is an experienced trial lawyer who has acted for numerous corporations and individuals on a wide variety of matters including shareholder disputes, the enforcement of security agreements, employment matters, insolvency and construction law. Although he has experience in a broad range of areas of commercial litigation, Gus has developed an emphasis on and a comprehensive knowledge of creditor remedies in and outside of insolvency and is often called upon by creditors (secured and unsecured) and other stakeholders (including bankruptcy trustees) to protect their interests in this complex area of the law. Gus and his firm have acted for landlords in every major retail insolvency over the past 18 years. Gus keeps current with the latest developments in the law of creditor remedies and is a past Vice-Chair of the Insolvency Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association. He is also a member of the Model Order Subcommittee of the Commercial List Users Committee which has developed, and is continuing to develop, model orders for CCAA and BIA proceedings. He is a prodigious writer on issues related to creditor remedies. Gus has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court and the Ontario Court of Appeal. Gus is a proud graduate of Dalhousie Law School (’00) and has earned a Masters Degree from the University of Western Ontario