Business Disputes

Business disputes can interrupt operations, strain important relationships, and create serious financial risk. Our lawyers assist businesses, owners, professionals, contractors, suppliers, shareholders, and individuals involved in commercial disputes in Ontario.

These matters may involve unpaid invoices, failed business arrangements, breach of contract, partnership conflict, shareholder disagreements, service disputes, misrepresentation, or disputes between businesses.

We focus on practical strategies that match the value, urgency, and commercial reality of the dispute. Not every business dispute should become lengthy litigation.

We help clients assess their position, preserve evidence, negotiate where appropriate, and pursue or defend claims when court action becomes necessary.

Contracts are at the centre of most business relationships. Disputes can arise when one party refuses to pay, fails to perform, delivers incomplete or defective work, terminates the agreement improperly, or interprets the contract in a way that causes financial harm.

Our lawyers assist with disputes involving service agreements, purchase agreements, supply agreements, consulting agreements, loan agreements, settlement agreements, shareholder agreements, independent contractor agreements, and other commercial contracts.

We review the contract, the parties' communications, the performance history, and the damages at issue to determine the most effective and proportionate path forward.

Unpaid invoices and outstanding accounts can create real cash-flow problems for businesses, contractors, suppliers, consultants, and professionals. Our lawyers assist with debt collection, unpaid invoices, overdue accounts, payment disputes, loan enforcement, promissory notes, demand letters, and civil claims to recover money owed.

We also defend individuals and businesses facing collection claims where the amount is disputed, the work was deficient, payment terms were unclear, or the claim is overstated.

We focus on recovery strategies that make financial sense, including demand letters, negotiated payment arrangements, Small Claims Court proceedings, Superior Court claims, and enforcement steps where necessary.

Businesses often rely on vendors, suppliers, contractors, consultants, and service providers to perform properly and on time. Disputes may arise when goods are not delivered, services are incomplete, work is defective, invoices are disputed, deadlines are missed, or one party refuses to honour the agreement.

These disputes may involve both breach of contract and allegations that the work or service was performed carelessly.

Our lawyers assist with supplier disputes, service agreement claims, contractor disputes, delivery issues, payment disagreements, defective work claims, and performance-related conflicts. We help clients determine whether negotiation, a demand letter, litigation, or a business-focused settlement is the right approach.

Some commercial disputes involve more than a disagreement about payment or performance. A party may have made false statements, hidden important information, misused funds, diverted business opportunities, breached a fiduciary duty, or acted dishonestly in a business relationship.

Our lawyers assist clients with fraud claims, negligent misrepresentation, fraudulent misrepresentation, breach of trust, breach of fiduciary duty, misuse of business funds, and related commercial wrongdoing.

These matters require careful evidence gathering, document review, and strategic planning. We help clients identify the proper legal basis for the claim, assess available remedies, and take appropriate steps to protect their interests.

Many commercial disputes are resolved through settlement agreements, payment plans, minutes of settlement, releases, or negotiated business arrangements. Problems arise when one party refuses to comply, misses payments, breaches confidentiality, fails to deliver documents, or attempts to reopen issues that were already resolved.

Our lawyers assist clients with settlement enforcement, payment defaults, breach of settlement agreements, enforcement of releases, and disputes arising after a negotiated resolution.

We also help draft settlement terms that are clear, enforceable, and practical. A properly structured settlement can prevent future litigation, while a poorly drafted one can create a new dispute.

Winning a judgment is not always the end of a dispute. If the losing party refuses to pay, further steps may be required to recover the money owed.

Our lawyers assist with judgment enforcement, garnishment, writs of seizure and sale, examinations in aid of execution, payment arrangements, enforcement negotiations, and post-judgment recovery strategy.

We also advise clients who need to respond to enforcement steps or negotiate payment terms after judgment. Enforcement should be handled strategically because not every recovery step is worth the cost. We help clients assess collectability, prioritize effective remedies, and pursue recovery where it makes practical sense.

Not every business dispute begins with your company as the claimant. Businesses and individuals may be sued over alleged unpaid debts, breach of contract, failed transactions, defective services, misrepresentation, lease defaults, shareholder issues, or other commercial claims.

Our lawyers defend commercial claims by reviewing the pleadings, assessing the evidence, identifying available defences, preserving documents, and developing a strategy that responds to both the legal and business realities of the dispute.

We help clients avoid default, manage deadlines, consider settlement where appropriate, and defend the claim through negotiation, mediation, motions, or trial where necessary.