Partner
Tevia R.M. Jeffries
Office
Vancouver
Key Practice Area
Insolvency & Financial Restructuring
Year of Call
2009
Qualifications
New York Bar (2009)
British Columbia Bar (2012)
Education
University of British Columbia (B.A., Economics, 2002)
London School of Economics (M.Sc., Economics, 2003)
McGill University (LL.B./B.C.L, 2008)
Tevia Jeffries practices in the area of corporate restructuring, insolvency, bankruptcy, creditors’ remedies, and plans of arrangement. She regularly advises debtors, creditors, court officers, receivers and banks on a variety of issues including in and out of court restructuring, financing, distressed asset purchases, debt recovery, and security realization. Tevia began her legal career in New York, where she specialized in corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, insurance insolvency and rehabilitation, and corporate governance. Tevia is admitted to practice law in British Columbia and New York.
Tevia’s experience includes restructurings and insolvencies in varied industries, including mining, real estate, education, forestry, technology, energy, hospitality, and retail. Her practice frequently involves cross-border considerations. Tevia is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the ARIL Society Inc., the organization that produces the Annual Review of Insolvency Law and related conference. She is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Annual Review, a member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada and a member of the International Insolvency Institute. Tevia publishes and presents regularly on restructuring and insolvency issues.
- Counsel to the Court-appointed receiver in the receivership proceedings of a zinc mine in the Yukon Territory under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA)
- Counsel to a private, not-for-profit, post-secondary institution in Squamish, British Columbia, in its restructuring under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA)
- Counsel to an international provider of foreign exchange risk management and cross-border payment services in its acquisition of a Canadian business providing similar services out of the Canadian target’s proceedings under the BIA
- Counsel to an investment fund holding senior secured notes issued by a technology company during the debtor’s CCAA restructuring and subsequent reverse takeover
- Counsel to Schedule I bank in successfully recovering debt secured against farm lands and business
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- Member of the Insolvency Institute of Canada
- Board Member of the ARIL Society Inc., and Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Annual Review of Insolvency Law
- Member of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation
- Member of the American Bankruptcy Institute
- Member of the Law Society of British Columbia
- Member of the Canadian Bar Association
- Member of the New York State Bar Association