Bio

Caroline Descours is a partner in the Restructuring Group at Goodmans, which is consistently and widely recognized as Canada’s best and leading corporate restructuring practice. Caroline’s practice focuses on corporate restructuring and commercial insolvency matters, including Canadian, transnational and cross-border matters. She has significant experience in corporate and insolvency restructurings, recapitalization transactions, acquisitions, commercial financing transactions, and private equity and corporate matters. Her roles include acting as counsel for companies, secured and unsecured debtholders, and monitors and trustees, as well as advising boards of directors in respect of corporate and restructuring transactions and strategic alternatives. She also acts for private equity funds and investors in a broad range of transactions. In 2020, Caroline was honoured as one of Lexpert’s Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40, and has been recognized as a Rising Star by IFLR1000. She has also been recognized as “repeatedly recommended” by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for restructuring and insolvency, recognized as a leading practitioner by Best Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Canada, Chambers Global, and included in Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law.