Recent Cases

Our client was the plaintiff in a claim for US $100 million arising from an international shareholders’ dispute. Our client claimed that the defendants, who were minority shareholders, had overvalued their interest in the corporation and misled securities regulators in another jurisdiction. Read More →

Our client, the major shareholder of a Canadian technology start up, negotiated the successful resolution and joint venture with its minority shareholder, an offshore financier. As a result, a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario involving a multi-million dollar claim and an international commercial arbitration case were resolved. Read More →

Our client, a Canadian software manufacturer, was involved in a shareholders’ dispute with its minority shareholders located abroad. We were respondents’ counsel in an international commercial arbitration proceedings before LCIA International in London, England, which ended for lack of jurisdiction. Read More →

Our client, an American Health Management Organization, was defrauded for several millions of dollars. Some of these funds were traced to an upscale property in Toronto. Through our advocacy, we recovered the property. The property was sold and the traced funds were returned to our client.

Our client, a Canadian business consultant, was sued in a United States court for $37 million by a major Canadian non-profit organization arising from a failed venture. We retained and instructed American counsel to dispute the US court’s jurisdiction over our client. Read More →

Our client challenged the will of her late father, which left virtually all of the assets to another sibling. The challenge, based on the father’s of lack of testamentary capacity, undue influence, suspicious circumstances and mismanagement of finances, was strenuously resisted and intensely litigated. Read More →

Our client, the residuary beneficiary of her mother’s substantial estate, retained us to remove offensive conditions applicable to her receipt of the residue. Through the use of annuity insurance, effective advocacy, we successful negotiated the payment of the residue to our client. Read More →

Our client, a principal in an entertainment enterprise operating in Canada and the United States, negotiated a successful buyout of his shares and an interest in entertainment venture following the issue of an initial public offering. Read More →