Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP

About Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP

Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP (TGF) is a Toronto law firm with a narrow focus: commercial litigation and restructuring and insolvency law. It doesn't take on a general caseload. Instead its lawyers concentrate on complex disputes and corporate insolvencies for financial institutions, regulatory agencies, publicly traded companies, and the receivers and monitors that courts appoint to oversee troubled companies. The firm operates from a single office in the Toronto-Dominion Centre, in the heart of the city's financial district, with a team of lawyers and law clerks working across both practice areas.

TGF's lawyers have acted in some of the largest insolvency and restructuring matters in Canadian history. The firm acted for the UK Pension Claimants, the largest single creditor in the worldwide Nortel Networks estate, in a case that produced a cross border pro rata allocation of US$7.3 billion. It has also acted for the court appointed receiver of Bridging Finance, for creditors in the Air Canada restructuring, for the court appointed monitor Ernst & Young in the restructuring of Stelco, and in the wind down of Blockbuster Canada's store network. Robert I. Thornton and John L. Finnigan continue to practise at the firm.