Toni Vanderlaan

Professional Profile:

I am a practical, results oriented professional with over 20 years of corporate restructuring and business transformation experience who has assisted companies to restructure over $10 billion in debt. Allowing these companies to continue as going concerns, maintain jobs and rebuild value for stakeholders.

Working side by side with management teams and their boards to map out and implement strategies to overcome the challenges for their distressed business, I thrive on problem solving and helping my clients improve their business operationally and financially. Working in distressed situations requires focus, creative thinking, open mindedness, strong communications skills and perseverance. I help my clients to prioritize competing agendas, assess the value aspects of their business and manage stakeholders to maximize the likelihood of a successful outcome.

I am a licensed insolvency trustee and certified turnaround professional with experience across a broad range of industries and geographies having worked on mandates in Canada, the US, the UK, Asia and South America.

I have extensive project management experience and I have lead teams in a wide variety of projects and assignments including:

• Financial realignment including cash flow management, and balance sheet restructuring, treasury, working capital improvement, expenditure reduction and asset realization; • Operational realignment assessments and implementation projects including logistics workflows – manufacturing and transportation, human capital and work flow improvements; • Risk assessments including evaluations of management, employees, operations, product profitability, offers of purchase, lending proposals and agreements and preparation of recovery analysis. • Formal and informal workouts including refinancing, sale of assets, debt for equity swaps, proposals to creditors, and liquidations; and • Discrete transaction experience acting as advisor to management of private and public companies, lenders and lender syndicates, private equity and hedge funds. I have prepared both vendor and purchaser due diligence reviews, investment and lending oriented business reviews and conducted extensive assets realization initiatives from the sale of discrete assets to full businesses.

My work often requires court appointed roles and I have been an advisor or court appointed officer under the Companies Creditors Arrangement Act (“CCAA”), the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (“BIA”), the Enterprise Act 2002 (UK) and Chapter 7, Chapter 11 and Chapter 15 of the Bankruptcy Act (US).