Commercial Litigation Lawyer in Scarborough & Toronto

What's Included

Our commercial litigation practice covers the full scope of work most clients need:

• Contract and shareholder disputes
• Partnership and joint venture conflicts
• Construction and supply chain claims
• Injunctive relief
• Oppression remedy applications
• Breach of fiduciary duty claims
• Debt collection and judgment enforcement

What to Bring

• Corporate records and contracts
• Shareholder and partnership agreements
• Financial statements
• Communication trail
• Damages evidence

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Commercial Litigation for GTA Businesses

Commercial litigation covers disputes between businesses, between shareholders or partners, and between businesses and the people who deal with them. The stakes are usually high — money, reputation, control of a company — and the timeline matters because operational uncertainty drains a business while the dispute lingers. Our commercial litigators bring strategic, decisive representation to private-company disputes across Scarborough, Toronto and the broader GTA.

The disputes we resolve

• Shareholder and partnership disputes, including oppression remedy applications under section 248 of the OBCA and section 241 of the CBCA.
• Breach of contract — supply, service, distribution, franchising, licensing and joint-venture agreements.
• Breach of fiduciary duty by directors, officers, employees or business partners.
• Restrictive covenant disputes, including non-competition, non-solicitation and confidentiality enforcement.
• Asset and share-purchase indemnity and earn-out disputes.
• Urgent injunctions to preserve assets, freeze accounts (Mareva) or compel access to records.

Speed matters: urgent and interlocutory relief

When a former partner is poaching your customers, a director has frozen your access to corporate accounts, or a buyer has refused to close a transaction, you may need court relief in days rather than years. Ontario courts can grant interim injunctions, Mareva orders, Anton Piller orders and Norwich orders on appropriate evidence. We prepare these motions with the speed and precision they require.

Oppression remedy — Ontario's most powerful shareholder tool

The oppression remedy lets a court do almost anything that fairness requires — from ordering a share buy-out at a court-determined price, to removing a director, to unwinding a transaction. It is the workhorse of Canadian private-company disputes. We have run oppression applications in family-business breakups, founder fall-outs, minority-shareholder squeeze-outs and post-acquisition disputes.

Settlement is the goal

Most commercial files settle. Our job is to put your matter in the strongest possible settlement position — the right pleadings, decisive early motions when warranted, surgical document production, and a credible willingness to try the case. The best settlements come from being clearly ready for trial.

Need urgent help with a business dispute? Contact us today — we respond same-day to commercial litigation inquiries and can have an injunction motion before the court within days when the facts demand it.