Noah Zucker

Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP


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Biography

Noah Zucker practises primarily in the areas of commercial insolvency and banking law. He acts for creditors, debtors, court-appointed officers and other stakeholders in matters ranging from complex corporate reorganizations to personal bankruptcies. Noah also represents clients in other civil or commercial disputes and advises on deals, always striving to find practical, business-oriented solutions to difficult problems.

Noah appears regularly before the Superior Court of Québec and has been involved in cases before the provincial and federal courts of appeal as well as the Supreme Court of Canada.

Prior to joining us, Noah spent several years at another leading national law firm. He also clerked, during his legal studies, at the Québec Court of Appeal for the Honorable Nicole Duval Hesler, then Chief Justice of Québec.    


Professional experience

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B.A. McGill University, 2007
LL.B. Université de Montréal, 2012
J.D. Université de Montréal, 2012

  • Quebec 2013

The matters in which Noah has been involved include the following:

  • Groupe Sélection: acting as part of a team representing a lending syndicate in the complex "creditor-led" restructuring proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) of one of the largest owners and operators of senior residences in Québec that was also involved in various high profile construction projects and real estate developments.  
  • Forex: acted as part of a team representing  the court-appointed monitor in the restructuring under the CCAA of a company operating in the forestry industry in Québec and Ontario, in which creditors recovered 100% of their proven claims. 
  • Blackrock Metals: acted as part of a team representing one of the principal secured creditors, interim lenders and stalking horse bidders in the restructuring of a major Québec mining project under the CCAA.
  • Groupe Dynamite: acted as part of a team representing the court-appointed monitor in the cross-border restructuring proceedings of a clothing retailer (Garage/Dynamite) under the CCAA.
  • Modasuite: acted as part of a team representing the proposal trustee in the restructuring of a clothing retailer (Frank And Oak) under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (BIA).
  • The SM Group: acted as part of a team representing one of the applicants in one of the first "creditor-led" processes authorized in Québec under the CCAA involving the restructuring of an engineering consultancy firm.
  • Armoires Fabritek: acted as part of a team representing a Canadian charter bank as senior secured and interim lender in the BIA restructuring of a furniture manufacturer.
  • Groupe Hexagone: acted as part of a team representing various unsecured creditors in the CCAA restructuring of a construction company.
  • BGA Financial Group: acted as part of a team representing a trustee in bankruptcy in proceedings commenced by an insurance company following a multi-million-dollar fraud.  

Noah also notably acted as part of a team representing a group of creditors in a case that was litigated up to the Supreme Court of Canada and which resulted in a landmark CCAA decision dealing with the scope of the supervising court's discretionary authority, the limits on creditors' voting rights and the role of litigation funding in the insolvency context (9354-9186 Québec inc. v. Callidus Capital Corp., 2020 SCC 10).

  • Best Lawyers in Canada: Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law, 2023-2025; Banking and Finance Law, 2024-2025
  • Noah Zucker and Luc Morin, "Clearing the Way: Suspending Restrictive Sale Provisions in Restructuring Proceedings," 2023 21 Annual Review of Insolvency Law, 2023 CanLIIDocs 3087. 
  • Noah Zucker, Gabriel Faure and Jocelyn T. Perreault, "Creditor Activism in CCAA Proceedings: Beyond the Vote" in Jill Corraini and Justice Blair Nixon, eds., Annual Review of Insolvency Law 2019 (Toronto: Carswell, 2020) 761.
  • Gabriel Faure and Noah Zucker, "La convocation de témoins extraprovinciaux : vers une meilleure harmonisation avec le reste du Canada?" (2015) 74 R. du B. 73.
  • "Clearing the Way"  (co-presenter), The 21st Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference, 2024.
  • "Reversal of Fortune: The Rise of Creditor Driven CCAAs"  (co-presenter), The 17th Annual Review of Insolvency Law Conference, 2020.
  • Canadian Bar Association
    • Member-at-large - Insolvency Section executive committee
  • Turn Around Management Association 
    • Member of the Board of Directors (Montréal Chapter)
  • Young Bar of Montreal
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