Jeremy Nemers
Biography
Having previously worked as an investment banker at a Montreal-based securities dealer, Jeremy draws experience from both sides of the legal-business relationship. This background helps him better understand what clients are seeking and enables him to provide clients with customized and practical solutions. Jeremy’s perceptive nature allows him to anticipate possible outcomes and consequences as matters evolve, allowing him to represent clients’ interests strategically and effectively. Jeremy is a Partner at Aird & Berlis LLP, practising in the areas of insolvency and restructuring law, with an emphasis on both the litigation and commercial aspects of turnarounds, reorganizations, liquidations, security enforcement, receiverships, plans of arrangement under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, proposals and bankruptcies under the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the purchase and sale of distressed assets and businesses. Jeremy is an Executive Member of the Insolvency Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association, a Member at Large of the National Insolvency Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association and regularly appears before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) on behalf of court-appointed officers, secured creditors, purchasers, debtors and others. He also regularly negotiates the sale and purchase of distressed assets and other related matters on behalf of these various stakeholder groups.
Saneea Tanvir
Biography
Saneea Tanvir is an associate in the Litigation Group and Bankruptcy & Restructuring Group at McCarthy Tétrault LLP in Toronto. Her practice focuses on the areas of commercial insolvency, restructuring, bankruptcy and commercial litigation.
Saneea has extensive experience representing creditors, debtors and court-appointed officers in receiverships, bankruptcies, and corporate restructurings. Saneea regularly appears before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) and the Bankruptcy Court in Toronto.
Prior to joining McCarthy Tétrault, Saneea was an associate at a leading multi-practice law firm in Toronto, where she practiced insolvency and restructuring.
Saneea received her J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School, where she was actively involved in the Osgoode Business Clinic. Prior to law school, Saneea obtained her Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences in Political Science and Ethics, Society and Law from the University of Toronto.
Saneea was called to the Ontario Bar in 2019. She is a member of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA), Canadian Bar Association and the Toronto Lawyers Association. Saneea sits on the Board of Directors of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC). She also sits on the Executive Board of the OBA – Insolvency Law Section. Saneea actively partakes in the mentorship program run by MAX/Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association as a mentor.
