Litigation
Disputes that cannot be walked back.
Courtroom-first representation across Ontario's Superior Court, the Commercial List, and private arbitration. Retained when the next move decides the outcome.
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.
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.
Our approach →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.
Courtroom-first representation across Ontario's Superior Court, the Commercial List, and private arbitration. Retained when the next move decides the outcome.
Transactional work done by litigators is different. We have seen, in detail, how agreements fall apart when the relationship does, and we draft with that in mind.
The matters below are de-identified where confidentiality requires it. They are representative of our practice across civil, commercial, and transactional work.
Counsel for defendants on a successful anti-SLAPP motion in a defamation action arising from tweets and newspaper comments.
Ontario Superior Court · s.137.1Acted in a shareholder agreement governance dispute involving board composition and decision-making rights. Global resolution achieved with continued operation of the business.
Ontario · CommercialActed for a Southwestern Ontario trucking company in its multi-million dollar asset sale, coordinating diligence, regulatory transfers, and closing mechanics.
Commercial TransactionsDefended a successful party in an oppression application. Strategy focused on the realities of closely held company dynamics and enterprise value preservation.
Ontario Superior CourtSuccessfully 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 CourtObtained a stay of a solicitor's assessment on the basis of a clause requiring fee disputes to be arbitrated under the ADR Chambers Regular Arbitration Rules.
Ontario Superior CourtStrategic counsel across defamation, shareholder disputes, and business law. Over 18 years of courtroom and advisory experience on every file.
Meticulous preparation and clear strategic thinking for complex commercial disputes, shareholder matters, and urgent relief applications.
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