{"id":39200,"date":"2025-08-22T14:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/?post_type=deals-cases&#038;p=39200"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:29:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:29:57","slug":"summit-automotive-group-obtains-initial-order-under-the-ccaa","status":"publish","type":"deals-cases","link":"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/en\/deals-cases\/summit-automotive-group-obtains-initial-order-under-the-ccaa\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Automotive Group obtains initial order under the CCAA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On August 22, 2025, the Honourable Justice M.A. Marion of the Court of King\u2019s Bench of Alberta issued an initial order under the Companies\u2019 Creditors Arrangement Act, RSC 1985, c. C-36, as amended, granting creditor protection to Summit Automotive Group. The order was made on the application of the Bank of Montreal, in its capacity as senior secured lender to the group of companies operating as Arrow Motors VW, Cranbrook Mitsubishi, Sun Valley Nissan, Vermilion Chrysler, Castle Ford, Squamish Chrysler, Western Power Sports, Summit S. Auto Ltd., and 2351497 Alberta Ltd. (collectively, the \u201c<strong>Summit<\/strong> <strong>Automotive Group<\/strong>\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pursuant to the Initial Order, BDO Canada Limited was appointed as monitor (\u201cMonitor\u201d), with enhanced power to manage and operate the business of the Summit Automotive Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miller Thomson LLP is counsel to the court-appointed&nbsp; Monitor of Summit Automotive Group with a team comprised of Greg &nbsp;Azeff, James Reid, Monica Faheim and Pavin Takhar (Restructuring and Insolvency).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"template":"","class_list":["post-39200","deals-cases","type-deals-cases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Summit Automotive Group obtains initial order under the CCAA | Miller Thomson<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.millerthomson.com\/en\/deals-cases\/summit-automotive-group-obtains-initial-order-under-the-ccaa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Summit Automotive Group obtains initial order under the CCAA | Miller Thomson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On August 22, 2025, the Honourable Justice M.A. Marion of the Court of King\u2019s Bench of Alberta issued an initial order under the Companies\u2019 Creditors Arrangement Act, RSC 1985, c. 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