Recent Cases

Our client was improperly served with a garnishment in connection with a small claims court judgment.  As a result, the Plaintiff obtained a default judgment against our client for the full amount of the judgment against the Defendant.   Read More →

Our client signed an Agreement of Purchase and Sale to buy a home.  The seller was represented by an agent and had family support during the process.  There were multiple offers on the property.   Read More →

Our client, a US based heavy equipment manufacturer, was a parts supplier in a major industry.  The existing supply contract prevented our client from earning a profit on the equipment it produced.   Read More →

In keeping with our goal of finding the most cost effective way to resolve our clients’ disputes, I was able to quickly negotiate settlements in two wrongful dismissal matters. Read More →

Our client is an international high-tech developer who distributes its product internationally. Upon termination of an international distribution agreement in Europe, the distributor threatened to sue under the ECU Commercial Agent Regulations, which require a mandatory payment to a commercial agent on the termination of an agency agreement. Read More →

Our client was a minority shareholder in a family manufacturing business which had been established by his father 40 years ago and had a successful market niche in its industry. In 1988, the father transferred shares in the business to our client and his sister as part of an estate freeze, giving each a minority interest. Read More →

Our clients, majority shareholders in an international financial services marketing enterprise involving five corporate entities, were in frequent disagreement with their minority shareholder and business partner. Read More →

Our client, a Toronto-based software developer, whose product is used in platforms worldwide, had a distributorship agreement with a reseller outside Canada. Upon mutual termination of distributorship, the reseller agreed to post-termination licensing arrangements for its users of our client’s software. Read More →

Our client, an equal shareholder of several closely-held corporations, claimed oppression under the Ontario Business Corporation Act. The Court preserved our client’s reasonable financial expectations pending trial and we resisted the opposing party’s motion for leave to appeal. Read More →

Our client’s former business partner interpreted their termination agreement in a way which would irreparably harm our client’s business. Although the former partner had not yet implemented his interpretation, our client was very concerned.   The business involved rights to a well-known lecture series.  A competing lecture series would have seriously cut into our client’s market and profitability. Read More →