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Grigoras Law ·Toronto ·Las Vegas ·Est. 2008 Thursday, 25 June 2026

We see what others miss. And we know what to do about it.

Grigoras Law is a Toronto boutique representing clients in commercial litigation, defamation and reputation management, shareholder disputes, and complex business matters. Every file is handled by senior counsel from first assessment through judgment or closing.

The Practice

Senior counsel, on every file, from first call through resolution.

When you retain Grigoras Law, the lawyer you speak with on the first call is the lawyer who handles your file. Not a senior partner who hands the work down to a junior associate. Not a different lawyer at every stage. The same counsel who assesses the matter is the counsel who drafts the pleadings, argues the motions, runs the cross-examinations, and sits across from you at settlement.

That structure isn't an accident. It's a deliberate refusal of the leverage model that defines most firms, where partners sell hours that associates work. We built the firm small on purpose, so that the work could be done the way it should be done: by lawyers with the experience to do it, on every file, from beginning to end.

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The Difference

Why we built it this way.

Most firms separate the lawyers who draft from the lawyers who fight. Solicitors prepare agreements they will never see tested. Litigators take in agreements they had no hand in shaping. The seam between the two is where most disputes are born, and it is rarely the seam where they get resolved.

Grigoras Law was built without that seam. Every file is handled by counsel who works in both registers. We draft with a litigator's instinct for how agreements fail under pressure, and we litigate with a transactional lawyer's sense of what the parties actually need from a resolution. That isn't a marketing line. It's the architecture of the firm.

We have drafted shareholders' agreements at the closing table and litigated their deadlocks at trial. Most firms can do one. We do both.
Representative Work

Where we have been retained.

The matters below are de-identified where confidentiality requires it. They are representative of our practice across civil, commercial, and transactional work.

Granted
Emergency Asset Freeze

Worldwide Mareva injunction & Norwich relief for a group of investors

Acted for a group of investors on an urgent, without-notice basis. In a single sitting, obtained a worldwide Mareva injunction freezing the defendants' assets, Norwich and asset-disclosure relief, certificates of pending litigation over multiple properties, and an order preserving the defendants' books and records, banking ledgers, and investor-subscription records.

Ontario Superior Court · Worldwide
Dismissed
Anti-SLAPP Victory

Fiddick's Nursing Home Ltd. v. Moore et al., [2024] O.J. No. 630

Counsel for defendants on a successful anti-SLAPP motion in a defamation action arising from tweets and newspaper comments.

Ontario Superior Court · s.137.1
Resolved
Shareholder Deadlock

Pre-suit resolution against national full-service counsel

Acted for a founder in a deadlock dispute over a shareholders' agreement governing a substantial Canadian financial services business. The agreement contained no functional deadlock mechanism. Matter resolved pre-suit on terms favourable to our client, with continued operation of the business.

Ontario · Commercial
Closed
M&A · Transportation

Asset sale to national outsourced logistics provider

Acted for an Ontario trucking company in its multi-million dollar asset sale to one of Canada's largest providers of outsourced, customer-located trucking services. Coordinated diligence, regulatory transfers, and closing mechanics through to completion.

Commercial Transactions
Defended
Oppression Remedy

Oppression application defence

Defended a successful party in an oppression application. Strategy focused on the realities of closely held company dynamics and enterprise value preservation.

Ontario Superior Court
Consolidated
Privacy Actions

Cross-jurisdictional privacy claims

Successfully argued a motion to consolidate two separate breach-of-privacy claims from different jurisdictions against common defendants, based on shared factual and legal issues.

Ontario Superior Court
Pre-publication
Reputation · Media

Investigative correction before story ran

Acted for a high-profile principal of an Ontario business who became the subject of an investigative inquiry by a national daily newspaper. Established the factual record with the publication and reporters, who corrected their working draft on the strength of the documentary record we provided. The story was never published.

Pre-suit · Reputation Management
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Practice Areas

Where strategy and precise execution make the difference.

The Lawyers

Senior counsel, personally involved.

Founder & Principal

Denis Grigoras

Strategic counsel across defamation, shareholder disputes, and business law. Over 18 years of courtroom and advisory experience on every file.

  • Ontario Bar2007
  • Nevada Bar2008
  • Joint J.D./LL.B.2005
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Senior Counsel

Rachelle Wabischewich

Meticulous preparation and clear strategic thinking for complex commercial disputes, shareholder matters, and urgent relief applications.

  • Ontario Bar2014
  • J.D., Western2013
  • B.A. (Hons), York2009
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