Ross Nasseri LLP is widely recognized as a premier Canadian litigation boutique that specializes in civil and regulatory litigation. The firm and its individual partners have received multiple accolades from leading publications for their litigation work. Ross Nasseri’s lawyers are battle-tested: They all boast a significant record of published cases and also have extensive experience in private forums such as domestic and international commercial arbitrations and confidential investigations. Ross Nasseri litigators have built a reputation as fearless and tenacious advocates who fight for their clients’ interests inside and outside of the courtroom.
The firm’s civil/regulatory practice includes corporate/commercial disputes, estates litigation, construction cases, administrative/regulatory discipline hearings, large scale class actions, shareholder disputes, injunctions, private investigations, and oppression cases. The firm is also one of few with expertise in acting on and providing advice in situations where there are parallel or concurrent civil, criminal, and regulatory proceedings.
Ross Nasseri’s clientele includes major developers, tech companies, publicly traded companies, regulated professionals, government entities, and privately held businesses of all sizes. RN lawyers are valued for their mature litigation instincts and their ability to either resolve cases on favourable terms or push them forward expeditiously to a hearing.
Some of our recent representative matters include:
- Obtaining significant ex parte relief in a $5.6 million bookkeeper fraud case, in which our firm secured Mareva, Norwich, Anton Piller, and passport surrender relief as well as several Certificates of Pending Litigation in a Commercial List proceeding;
- Acting for a major developer in multiple contract disputes and proceedings with a regulator;
- Acting for the management of a tech-real estate market disruptor in multiple proceedings, and successfully defeating an application for Norwich relief and obtaining a substantial indemnity costs award in the process;
- Winning a 7-week trial in which the firm’s client received judgment for malicious prosecution and abuse of process and was awarded substantial indemnity costs;
- One of our partners had a significant role as Commission Counsel in the Public Order Emergency Commission that was tasked with investigating the federal government’s exercise of power under the Emergencies Act;
- Acting as co-counsel to the receiver in the Bridging Finance Matter; a case in which a lender with a reported $2billion net asset value and over 26,000 retail investors was put into receivership after an investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission detected fraud by certain of its executives
- Acting as co-counsel in the Fehr v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada class proceedings
Updated April 2024
