The decisions below represent all Commercial List matters published on CanLII in the last year. This list will be updated every week.
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- keywords: independent legal advice, indemnification, shares, advance funding, mandatory injunction
CanLII | Oct 20, 2020
- keywords: receiver, re-appointment, trustee, discharge, appointment
CanLII | Oct 14, 2020
- keywords: stay, annulment, irreparable harm, test, asserts
CanLII | Oct 14, 2020
- keywords: contempt, pandemic, examination, recusal, viewing the matter realistically
CanLII | Oct 14, 2020
- keywords: transfer, undervalue, creditor, bankruptcy, security
CanLII | Oct 14, 2020
- keywords: noteholders, lenders, debt, fairness, arrangement
CanLII | Oct 6, 2020
- keywords: tax credits, security, dealership, borrowing base, trust
CanLII | Oct 5, 2020
- keywords: million, distributive costs, partial indemnity, shares, transaction structure
CanLII | Oct 5, 2020
- keywords: disclaim, purchase, deposit, interest, priority
CanLII | Sep 29, 2020
- keywords: brand, unfreeze the account, agreements, prima facie, irreparable harm
CanLII | Sep 28, 2020
- keywords: refund, cash collateral, approving, funds, paid
CanLII | Sep 25, 2020
- keywords: shares, rectification, tax, declaration, controlling
CanLII | Sep 16, 2020
- keywords: general partner, fiduciary, limited partners, affiliate, funds
CanLII | Sep 11, 2020
- keywords: fees, accruals, motion, error, entered
CanLII | Sep 10, 2020
- keywords: purchase, pandemic, obtain financing, frustration, shotgun
CanLII | Sep 2, 2020
- keywords: contempt, email, accounting, assets, orders
CanLII | Sep 2, 2020
- keywords: purchasers, debtor, appraisal report, disclaimer motion, unredacted
CanLII | Sep 1, 2020
- keywords: shareholders, bid, offer, hard lock-up, cash
CanLII | Jul 30, 2020
- keywords: arbitration, disputing, subsequent practice, investor, treaty
CanLII | Jul 29, 2020
- keywords: reserve, nunc, tunc, satisfied that it is appropriate, pending
CanLII | Jul 28, 2020
- keywords: extension, requested, granted, motions, cash-flow
CanLII | Jul 28, 2020
- keywords: receivership, unsecured creditors, two-year limitation period, cash collateral arrangement, bond
CanLII | Jul 22, 2020
- keywords: irreparable harm, brothers, business, properties, payments
CanLII | Jul 20, 2020
- keywords: transactions, debited from s account, assets, frozen, funds
CanLII | Jul 17, 2020
- keywords: releases, carve-out, submit, blockades, creditors
CanLII | Jul 14, 2020
- keywords: shareholder loan, partial indemnity costs, applications, claimed, disbursements
CanLII | Jul 9, 2020
- keywords: sealing, redactions, dwpv com, cashflows, rschwill
CanLII | Jul 2, 2020
- keywords: cricket, sport, jurisdiction, dispute, organization
CanLII | Jun 26, 2020
- keywords: unredacted, creditors, commonality, sealing, voting
CanLII | Jun 26, 2020
- keywords: stalking horse bid, receivership, debtor, project, purchasers
CanLII | Jun 25, 2020
- keywords: sealing, allegations, defamatory, costs, reasons
CanLII | Jun 25, 2020
- keywords: three-month time period, assign, suspend the three-month, access, pandemic
CanLII | Jun 19, 2020
- keywords: tenant estoppel certificates, crisis, building condition assessment, process, bidders
CanLII | Jun 18, 2020
- keywords: owing, monies, franchise, shareholder loan accounts, credited
CanLII | Jun 15, 2020
- keywords: brother, properties, forensic accountant, real estate, investments
CanLII | Jun 5, 2020
- keywords: foreign, enforcement, conflict, raise, public policy
CanLII | Jun 2, 2020
- keywords: bankruptcy, ordinary course, statute-barred, creditor, payments
CanLII | May 20, 2020
- keywords: contempt, rental income, mortgage, motion, beyond a reasonable doubt
CanLII | May 1, 2020
- keywords: project, payments, funds, defaulting co-owner, cost consultant
CanLII | Apr 23, 2020
- keywords: receivership, projects, financing, lenders, creditors
CanLII | Apr 17, 2020
- keywords: shares, tax, repurchase, transaction structure, holding company
CanLII | Apr 9, 2020
- keywords: majority, arbitration, gaming, non-gaming amenities, honour
CanLII | Apr 9, 2020
- keywords: receiver, class representative, approval, information, creditors
CanLII | Apr 7, 2020
- keywords: shareholder loan, cash, shareholders, business, front desk
CanLII | Apr 6, 2020
- keywords: settlement agreement, relief from forfeiture, administration fees, shortfall, outstanding
CanLII | Apr 6, 2020
- keywords: settlement agreement, relief from forfeiture, administration fees, shortfall, outstanding
CanLII | Apr 2, 2020
- keywords: assets, dies, equipment, business, advance
CanLII | Mar 23, 2020
- keywords: fiduciary duty, costs, damages, million, breached their fiduciary duties
CanLII | Mar 12, 2020
- keywords: mortgage, priority, lien claimants, registered, liens arising from the improvement
CanLII | Mar 11, 2020
- keywords: properties, inspector, interest, majority partners, oppression
CanLII | Mar 5, 2020
- keywords: obtain independent legal advice, retainer, shareholders agreement, lawyer, solicitor-client privilege
CanLII | Mar 3, 2020
- keywords: shares, purchase price, renegotiate, exercise, terms
CanLII | Feb 24, 2020
- keywords: equalization, trustee, spouses, matrimonial home, property
CanLII | Feb 19, 2020
- keywords: valuation, share purchase, financial, rectification, owing
CanLII | Feb 19, 2020
- keywords: funds, investors, second mortgage, motion, emails
CanLII | Feb 6, 2020
- keywords: partial indemnity basis, substantial indemnity costs, million, disgorgement, summary judgment motion
CanLII | Feb 5, 2020
- keywords: annuities, real properties, delay, contempt, motion
CanLII | Feb 4, 2020
- keywords: withdrawn partners capital, balance of convenience, specific fund, payment, dissipation
CanLII | Feb 3, 2020
- keywords: jurisdiction, challenge, arbitration, fresh evidence, ruling
CanLII | Feb 3, 2020
- keywords: trademark, assignment, e-mails, motion, property
CanLII | Jan 31, 2020
- keywords: costs, equipment, customers, unlawful, cross-application
CanLII | Jan 29, 2020
- keywords: solar, contracts, rating, rule, projects
CanLII | Jan 27, 2020
- keywords: lease, square foot, vacate, renew, injunction
CanLII | Jan 27, 2020
- keywords: resignation, director, votes, shares, set-off
CanLII | Jan 24, 2020
- keywords: money paid under a mistake, anti-money laundering, yuan, banks, transactions
CanLII | Jan 10, 2020
- keywords: stakeholders, initial, motion to extend the stay, relief, debtor
CanLII | Jan 9, 2020
- keywords: initial, reasonably necessary for the continued, comeback, stay extension, relief
CanLII | Jan 9, 2020
- keywords: mediation, distributors, products, million, conflict
CanLII | Jan 8, 2020
- keywords: shares, transaction structure, repurchase, purchase, buyout of s interest
CanLII | Jan 2, 2020
- keywords: lender, borrowers, loans, settlement, forfeiture
CanLII | Jan 2, 2020
- keywords: stakeholders, global resolution of all opioid-related, stay of proceedings, foreign, actions
CanLII | Jan 2, 2020
- keywords: delay, inordinate, translation, inexcusable, prejudice
CanLII | Dec 24, 2019
- keywords: patents, cylindrical battery technology, restructuring, assert, motion
CanLII | Dec 24, 2019
- keywords: proposed financing, directors, business, lenders, charge
CanLII | Dec 6, 2019
- keywords: money, account, funds, bona fide, valuable consideration
CanLII | Nov 28, 2019
- keywords: failure to achieve commercial operation, contract, terminate, interpretation, solar
CanLII | Nov 19, 2019
- keywords: failure to achieve commercial operation, estoppel by convention, shared assumption, waiver, terminate the for failure
CanLII | Nov 19, 2019
- keywords: private prosecution, justice of the peace, leave to sue, receiver, raw organic waste
CanLII | Nov 19, 2019
- keywords: inside wire, in-building wire, telecommunications, equipment, access
CanLII | Nov 14, 2019
- keywords: prima facie case of fraud, motion, funding, strong prima facie, partial indemnity
CanLII | Nov 6, 2019
- keywords: parks levy, parkland, payment of cash-in-lieu, purchasers, conveyance of land
CanLII | Oct 16, 2019
- keywords: syncreon, foreign non-main proceedings, schemes of arrangement, recognition, creditors
CanLII | Oct 15, 2019
- keywords: appointed, receiver, shareholders agreement, management, radio station
CanLII | Oct 7, 2019
- keywords: shareholders meeting, requisition, incurred, expenses, calling
CanLII | Oct 7, 2019
- keywords: offer, density, stakeholders, second mortgagees, process
CanLII | Oct 7, 2019
- keywords: market data, affidavit, undertakings, brand name, contract
CanLII | Sep 30, 2019
- keywords: evidence, motion for summary, fraud, million, contempt
CanLII | Sep 30, 2019
- keywords: pre-assignment expenses, mortgage, receivership, pre-assignment amounts, property
CanLII | Sep 30, 2019
- keywords: advance funding, strong prima facie, indemnify, save harmless, individual
CanLII | Sep 10, 2019
- keywords: net profits, interpretation, extricable, submits that the arbitrator, royalty
CanLII | Aug 30, 2019
- keywords: companies, shareholder loan, fair value, enterprise, oppressive
CanLII | Aug 21, 2019
- keywords: relief from forfeiture, obtain a writ of possession, municipal taxes, breach, leave to obtain a writ
CanLII | Aug 15, 2019
- keywords: acquisition fees, real estate, assets, acquisition fee, purchase
CanLII | Aug 13, 2019
- keywords: arbitrator, fire, knowledge of as co-extensive, bakery, interpretation
CanLII | Aug 9, 2019
- keywords: solely as a financial investor, pension fund, infrastructure projects, competing interests, pension funds
CanLII | Aug 8, 2019
- keywords: million, valuation, value, equitable compensation, amount
CanLII | Aug 2, 2019
- keywords: expert, evidence, entities, admissibility, foreign
CanLII | Aug 2, 2019
- keywords: testing of active marijuana ingredients, extraction, motion, discoverability, summary
CanLII | Aug 2, 2019
- keywords: shareholders, leave to bring a derivative, polymer coating, contract, misappropriation
CanLII | Jul 31, 2019
- keywords: investment, fraudulent misrepresentation, shareholders, injunction, mortgage
CanLII | Jul 30, 2019
- keywords: prejudgment interest, exchange rate, disgorgement of profits, foreign currency, date
CanLII | Jul 25, 2019
- keywords: substantial indemnity costs, offer, oppression, application, judicial mediation
CanLII | Jul 22, 2019
- keywords: calculation, settlement agreement, amounts, landlords, valuation
CanLII | Jul 17, 2019
- keywords: email, agreement, document, minutes of settlement, shares
CanLII | Jul 11, 2019
- keywords: liquidation, purchase, termination, proceeds, distribution
CanLII | Jul 8, 2019
- keywords: shareholders, confidential information, disqualifying conflict of interest, client, corporation
CanLII | Jul 8, 2019
- keywords: winding-up, monitor, costs, payment, legal fees
CanLII | Jun 26, 2019
- keywords: receiver, vesting orders, property, jurisdiction, royalty
CanLII | Jun 25, 2019
- keywords: pro rata basis, demutualization, premiums paid, life insurance coverage, distributed
CanLII | Jun 21, 2019
- keywords: relief from forfeiture, exercise, terms, submits, shares
CanLII | Jun 21, 2019
- keywords: easement, set aside, notice, registered, submit
CanLII | Jun 19, 2019
- keywords: shareholders, corporation, property, business, directors
CanLII | Jun 13, 2019
- keywords: abuse of process, criminal, police, real estate, fraud
CanLII | Jun 10, 2019
- keywords: abuse, father, physical, incident, hit
CanLII | Jun 10, 2019
- keywords: summary judgment motion, indemnity costs, successful, criminal, unreasonably
CanLII | Jun 5, 2019
- keywords: satisfactory financing, early termination, commercially reasonable steps, interpretation, unfettered discretion
CanLII | Jun 4, 2019
- keywords: creditors, restructuring, foreign proceeding, prepetition, million
CanLII | Jun 3, 2019
- keywords: trading, software, platform, error trades, computer
CanLII | May 21, 2019
- keywords: million, revenues, breach of fiduciary duty, company, board
CanLII | May 17, 2019
- keywords: percent, commissions, constructively dismissed, amount, producers
CanLII | May 9, 2019
- keywords: set aside, materials, lawyer, natural justice, served
CanLII | May 9, 2019
- keywords: shares, dealing at arm s-length, undervalue, consulting, value
CanLII | May 6, 2019
- keywords: status quo, provinces, stayed, stakeholders, plc
CanLII | May 2, 2019
- keywords: cause of action estoppel, inducing breach of contract, motions, confidential information, abuse of process
CanLII | May 2, 2019
- keywords: stakeholders, stay, preserve the status quo, proceedings, jurisdiction
CanLII | Apr 29, 2019
- keywords: costs, indemnity basis, losing, settle, applications
CanLII | Apr 25, 2019
- keywords: cross-examination, knowledge, settlement, relevant, negotiated
CanLII | Apr 25, 2019
- keywords: bonding, trust, reserves, commitments, attached
CanLII | Apr 16, 2019
- keywords: projects, day-to-day operations, restructuring, proposed, stay of proceedings
CanLII | Apr 16, 2019
- keywords: winding-up, costs, estate trustee, legal fees, ordinary course
CanLII | Apr 16, 2019
- keywords: receiver, arguable defence on the merits, undertakings, motion to set aside, potential prejudice
CanLII | Apr 16, 2019
- keywords: motion, limitation period, record, value of the loan portfolio, summary
CanLII | Apr 5, 2019
- keywords: trustee, bankrupt, examination, attend, costs
CanLII | Apr 4, 2019
- keywords: application, locality of the debtor, registrars in bankruptcy, motions, erred
CanLII | Apr 4, 2019
- keywords: declarant, dispute, arbitration clause, oppressive, agreement
CanLII | Apr 2, 2019
- keywords: ldicris, motion, affidavit, factum, cross-examination
CanLII | Mar 27, 2019
- keywords: million, proceeds, disposition of the securities, entitled to receive, successor thereof
CanLII | Mar 22, 2019
- keywords: security for costs, assets to satisfy a costs, bank, evidence, account
CanLII | Mar 20, 2019
- keywords: stay, stakeholders, billion, plc, proceedings
CanLII | Mar 18, 2019
- keywords: transaction, materials, relevance, accordance with accepted valuation principles, shares
CanLII | Mar 15, 2019
- keywords: insolvent, assignment, unreasonably withheld, clinics, assets
CanLII | Mar 14, 2019
- keywords: stakeholders, stay of proceedings, debtor company, charge, restructuring
CanLII | Mar 13, 2019
- keywords: examination for discovery, spectrum, entrants, roaming, wireless
CanLII | Mar 12, 2019
- keywords: arbitration, address, notarized delivery, enforcement, mailed
CanLII | Mar 11, 2019
- keywords: stay of proceedings, million, intercompany, cross-border, liabilities
CanLII | Mar 6, 2019
- keywords: motion, venue, passing of accounts, ex parte, beneficiaries
CanLII | Mar 4, 2019
- keywords: various landlords, theoretical, cash sweep, liquidators, assignees
CanLII | Mar 1, 2019
- keywords: privilege, stay, motion for leave, produce, confidentiality
CanLII | Feb 22, 2019
- keywords: lawyer s negligence, underlying litigation, billing, dismissal, delay
CanLII | Feb 21, 2019
- keywords: costs on a partial indemnity, injunction motion, materials, claimed, reserved
CanLII | Feb 21, 2019
- keywords: purchaser, individual, indemnity, bad faith, shareholder
CanLII | Feb 21, 2019
- keywords: motion, attempt to relitigate, accounting, joint venture, interest
CanLII | Feb 21, 2019
- keywords: dividend, rollover agreement, rectification, capital, tax
CanLII | Feb 12, 2019
- keywords: million, loan, transaction, amount, principal
CanLII | Feb 12, 2019
- keywords: defamation, conspiracy, whistleblower, plead, publication
CanLII | Feb 12, 2019
- keywords: conspiracy, duty of care, proximity, negligent misrepresentation, plead
CanLII | Feb 12, 2019
- keywords: continuing professional development programs, oppressive, corporations, appointment of an inspector, revocation
CanLII | Feb 11, 2019
- keywords: shares, trust, million, beneficial interest, purchase
CanLII | Feb 1, 2019
- keywords: charging, lien, solicitor, secured creditor, bankruptcy
CanLII | Jan 23, 2019
- keywords: dissident, electronic, not-for-profit corporation, members, list
CanLII | Jan 17, 2019
- keywords: misrepresentation, allegations, fraudulent, enter into the severance agreement, induced
CanLII | Jan 15, 2019
- keywords: commissions, brokerage, trust account, real estate, audited financial statements
CanLII | Jan 11, 2019
- keywords: directors, business, proposed, officers, broadloom
CanLII | Jan 11, 2019
- keywords: hydroformed, pre-filing amounts to certain, stakeholders, secured lenders, factum
CanLII | Jan 11, 2019
- keywords: funds, held in trust, money, settlement, paid
CanLII | Jan 11, 2019
- keywords: escrow, pleading, breaches of representations, liquidity crisis, mismanagement
CanLII | Jan 11, 2019
- keywords: unanimous shareholders agreement, board of directors, co-chief executive officer, email, posts
CanLII | Jan 11, 2019
- keywords: valuation, management buyout, settlement, release, motion
CanLII | Jan 11, 2019
- keywords: valuation, one-third share, counter-application, fair market value, costs
CanLII | Jan 9, 2019
- keywords: rate, shares, postjudgment interest, quarter, dissenting shareholder
CanLII | Jan 8, 2019
- keywords: assets, contempt, accounts, worldwide, affidavit
CanLII | Jan 7, 2019
- keywords: trustees, cemetery, burial of the dead, corporation, lands
CanLII | Jan 3, 2019
- keywords: returnable, comeback, milestone, objections, emergence
CanLII | Jan 3, 2019
- keywords: fraud, risk of dissipation, audit, assets, injunction
CanLII | Jan 3, 2019
- keywords: investors, trustee, fees, developers, committee
CanLII | Dec 11, 2018
- keywords: protestors, back-to-work legislation, police, enforce, blockading
CanLII | Dec 10, 2018
- keywords: all-inclusive basis, rate, costs, reduced, amount
CanLII | Dec 7, 2018
- keywords: environmental, settlements, releases, stakeholders, remediation
CanLII | Nov 30, 2018
- keywords: oppression, calculation of pre-judgment interest, shares, arbitration, alter ego
CanLII | Nov 29, 2018
- keywords: mortgage, assignment, property, amount, discharge
CanLII | Nov 29, 2018
- keywords: security for costs, crossclaim for damages, counterapplication, good reason to believe, motion
CanLII | Nov 27, 2018
- keywords: evidence, repudiated, miscarriage of justice, interim receiver, appointed
CanLII | Nov 27, 2018
- keywords: programs, stalking horse bids, employees, process, incentive
CanLII | Nov 23, 2018
- keywords: loss ratio, rollover, agreement, product, insurance
CanLII | Nov 14, 2018
- keywords: interpleader, cryptocurrency, accounts, funds, competing
CanLII | Nov 12, 2018
- keywords: purported fresh evidence, organic waste, original motion, indemnity, willful
CanLII | Nov 9, 2018
- keywords: financing, valuation, debt, cash flows, projected
CanLII | Nov 6, 2018
- keywords: assets, proprietary, funds, non-dissipation, motion
CanLII | Nov 5, 2018
- keywords: closing, purchaser, breaches of confidentiality, stakeholders, financing
CanLII | Nov 2, 2018
- keywords: motion, companies, costs, ruling, privilege
CanLII | Nov 2, 2018
- keywords: costs, winding-up process, substantial indemnity, motion to strike, oppression
CanLII | Oct 26, 2018
- keywords: investment, funds, otra punta, email, account
CanLII | Oct 26, 2018
- keywords: arbitrator to determine, appoint, set-off, cost-effective, closing
CanLII | Oct 22, 2018
- keywords: software, abuse of process, motion, oppression, damages
CanLII | Oct 12, 2018
- keywords: disqualification, duty of fairness, proponents, duty of care, process
CanLII | Oct 12, 2018
- keywords: investors, erred in disallowing, failed to meet the onus, advance, owner of the property municipally
CanLII | Oct 1, 2018
- keywords: forum non conveniens analysis, bronzes, stay, doctrines, jurisdiction
CanLII | Sep 21, 2018
- keywords: lien claimants, costs, lien claimant litigation, indemnity, priority
CanLII | Sep 20, 2018
- keywords: not-for-profit corporation, arbitration, oppression, board of directors, lifetime members
CanLII | Sep 20, 2018
- keywords: shares, expectation, personal expenses, arrangements, card
CanLII | Sep 20, 2018
- keywords: companies, answers, stonewalling, produced, corporations
CanLII | Sep 14, 2018
- keywords: delay, motion, dismissing the action with costs, impecuniosity, failure to comply
CanLII | Sep 11, 2018
- keywords: court-appointed receiver, creditor, privately-appointed receiver, payment, mortgage
CanLII | Aug 29, 2018
- keywords: project, fiduciary, counter-application, departure, relationship
CanLII | Aug 27, 2018
- keywords: arbitrator, damages for loss of profits, duty of good faith, covenant, jurisdiction
CanLII | Aug 27, 2018
- keywords: directors, shareholder loans, fiduciary, cash, mortgage
CanLII | Aug 21, 2018
- keywords: deductibles, settlement, release, wrap-up liability policy, third-party
CanLII | Aug 2, 2018
- keywords: conspiracy, motion, matrix, interests of justice, will
CanLII | Aug 2, 2018
- keywords: shares, president, salary, company, deadlock
CanLII | Aug 2, 2018
- keywords: process server, set-top boxes, jurisdiction, com, infringement
CanLII | Aug 1, 2018
- keywords: equitable set-off, receiver, repudiated, ground-mount solar, project
CanLII | Jul 30, 2018
- keywords: appoint a receiver, two-year term, three-year term, tax arrears, renovation
CanLII | Jul 25, 2018
- keywords: tax, rectification, nunc pro tunc, equitable jurisdiction, mistake
CanLII | Jun 21, 2018
- keywords: pierce the corporate veil, assets, shares, principle of corporate separateness, debtor
CanLII | Jun 4, 2018
- keywords: settlement privilege, proposal, annulment motion, creditors, trustee
CanLII | Jun 1, 2018
- keywords: royalty, interest in land, vesting, incorporeal hereditament, motion
CanLII | Mar 15, 2018
- keywords: counter-application, fund, performance dividend, extricable, undeclared
CanLII | Mar 9, 2018
- keywords: shareholders agreement, oppression, injunction, arbitration, well-nigh
CanLII | Dec 22, 2017
- keywords: oppression, million, recapitalization, restructuring, stakeholders
CanLII | Dec 21, 2017
- keywords: rectification, certificate of amalgamation, court-approved corporate fundamental change, plan of arrangement, unwinding
CanLII | Oct 4, 2017
- keywords: million, forbearance fees, debt, amended guarantee, facility
CanLII | Jul 28, 2017
- keywords: tax pools, warranty, motion judge s interpretation, future, representation
CanLII | Jul 10, 2017
- keywords: million, fiduciary duty, fraudulent misrepresentation, deceit, investment bankers
CanLII | Apr 21, 2017
- keywords: shares, value, cash calls, en-bloc adjusted book, valuation
CanLII | Mar 31, 2017
- keywords: applications, trust, recital, owns the shares, owner
CanLII | Jan 2, 2017
- keywords: engagement agreements, motion, financing, lender disclosed, partial indemnity
CanLII | Mar 1, 2016
- keywords: offer to settle, substantial indemnity, seven-day timing requirement, holistic approach, favourable
CanLII | Dec 15, 2015