Grigoras Law · Toronto · Las Vegas · Est. 2008

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. The same counsel who assesses the matter drafts the pleadings, argues the motions, conducts the cross-examinations, and sits across from you at settlement.

We kept the firm small on purpose. At most firms, a file moves through several hands, and much of the day-to-day work is done by junior lawyers. We prefer to do the work ourselves, and we think the results show it.

The practice runs both ways. We draft shareholders' agreements, contracts, and corporate structures with a litigator's knowledge of how they come under attack when relationships break down, and we litigate with a working understanding of how those documents were negotiated and what the parties needed from them.

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We have drafted shareholders' agreements at the closing table and litigated their deadlocks at trial.
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 motion. On that one motion, 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
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

The work of the firm.

United States

Ontario counsel for American clients.

A large part of the firm's Ontario work is for American clients. Some are companies with a customer or a supplier in Ontario. Others are individuals with an investment or a dispute here. Ontario is a common-law jurisdiction, and its procedure is close to what an American client already knows, with pleadings, documentary and oral discovery, motions, a trial, and a right of appeal. In Ontario the losing party usually pays part of the winner's legal fees, and civil juries are rare in commercial cases. Discovery is narrower than in most American states. An Ontario judgment can be enforced in the United States, and an American judgment can be enforced here.

Denis Grigoras has been licensed in Nevada since 2008 as well as in Ontario, so he knows what an American client expects from a lawyer and can explain Ontario procedure in familiar terms. We act for American plaintiffs and defendants in Ontario, either alongside their lawyers in the United States or on our own, and we enforce American judgments here.

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Europe

Ontario and Nevada structures for European clients.

A growing part of the practice serves clients in Switzerland and the European Union who need North American counsel. We advise on Ontario and Nevada law, and in particular on forming and organizing companies in both jurisdictions, on holding and asset-protection structures, and on the shareholder agreements and contracts that support doing business in Canada and the United States.

Denis Grigoras has been licensed in Ontario since 2007 and in Nevada since 2008, and handles European enquiries directly.

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The Lawyers

Senior counsel, personally involved.

Founder & Principal

Denis Grigoras

Denis practises across defamation, shareholder disputes, and business law, and brings nearly two decades of courtroom and advisory experience to every file the firm takes on.

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

Rachelle Wabischewich

Rachelle brings meticulous preparation and clear strategic thinking to complex commercial disputes, shareholder matters, and urgent relief applications.

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