D.J. Miller

Representative Mandates

• Counsel to Yukon Government in its various capacities as regulator, lender and applicant in a court-appointed receivership involving Victoria Gold Corp. following a catastrophic incident leading to a suspension of operations and the undertaking of significant environmental remediation work.
• Canadian counsel to Diebold Nixdorf in obtaining recognition under Part IV of the CCAA, following its successful restructuring of more than US$2.7 billion in funded debt through the first-ever dual proceeding under the US Bankruptcy Code and Dutch restructuring law.
• Counsel to the only publicly-funded university to be restructured pursuant to insolvency legislation in Canada.
• Counsel to Alvarez & Marsal Canada Inc. as court-appointed monitor of Lydian International and its related entities in a multi-jurisdictional CCAA restructuring, including the first time that foreign insolvency proceedings have been recognized in Jersey, Channel Islands.
• Counsel to Ernst & Young Canada Inc. as court-appointed monitor of Peraso Technologies Inc. in its CCAA restructuring and Chapter 15 US recognition proceedings.
• Counsel to the applicant lender, which sought and obtained the appointment by the Court of a receiver over the Comsale Group of Companies in a multi-jurisdictional proceeding for the recovery of assets in Canada, the US and Malaysia.
• Canadian counsel for SquareTwo Financial Corporation and its Canadian and US subsidiaries in Chapter 11 and CCAA recognition proceedings, with respect to a US$400 million prepackaged restructuring plan.
• Canadian counsel for Charming Charlie Holdings Inc. and its affiliates in Chapter 11 and Canadian recognition proceedings.
• Counsel to Durham College of Applied Arts & Technology in obtaining a non-insolvency Order for a court-appointed receiver over the joint student association for the college and another institution representing more than 20,000 students.
• Counsel to Oxford Properties Group Inc. as landlord in various CCAA proceedings involving retail tenants
• Canadian insolvency counsel for the UK pension claimants (the largest single creditor in the worldwide Nortel Networks proceedings), in successfully obtaining a decision of the Canadian and US Courts allocating $7.3 billion of sale proceeds on a pro rata basis among more than 40 worldwide insolvency estates in 19 countries.
• Obtained a $600 million judgment from the Canadian Court in the Nortel Networks CCAA proceedings, following a disallowance of the claim in its entirety by the monitor.
• Participated in the first joint trial involving the Canadian and US Courts in a cross-border proceeding.
• Counsel to Fraser Papers Inc. and its Canadian and U.S. affiliates in a restructuring under the CCAA and Chapter 15 of the US Bankruptcy Code, obtaining amendments to provincial pension legislation to facilitate a Plan of Arrangement.
• Counsel to the Insolvency Institute of Canada, which was granted intervener status and participated on an appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in the precedent-setting Indalex case.
• Independent counsel to the monitor and court-appointed receiver in Livent lnc.’s CCAA proceeding and joint Chapter 11 proceeding.
• Regularly represents lenders and other parties in Canadian and cross-border insolvency and enforcement proceedings.

D.J. was elected President of the International Insolvency Institute in 2026, which is an organization comprised of the world’s leading insolvency practitioners, scholars and judges with expertise in international insolvency law and practice, drawn from more than 50 countries. She is a past President of the Toronto Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) and formerly served as VP International Relations and member of the Board of TMA Global.

D.J. co-developed and taught a course in Advanced Insolvency Law at the University of Windsor Law School, and has been a guest lecturer in the law schools at Western University, Queens University and University of Ottawa.

D.J. is a member of:

• International Insolvency Institute
• Insolvency Institute of Canada
• Inducted into the American College of Bankruptcy
• Turnaround Management Association
• Toronto Lawyers Association
• Canadian Bar Association
• American Bankruptcy Institute
• The Advocates’ Society
• International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
• INSOL International

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Bar Admissions

• Ontario, 1993

Education

• LL.B. (University of Windsor), 1991
• B.A. (Hons.) (University of Western Ontario), 1988