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Scotia Plaza
40 King Street West, Suite 2400
P.O. Box #215
Toronto, ON M5H 3Y2
2025 Fogler, Rubinoff LLP
Joseph’s practice focuses on commercial real estate transaction, commercial mortgages, and mortgage enforcement proceeding acting for both institutional and private investors.
Clients appreciate Joseph’s ability to navigating them through the challenging process of enforcing mortgages, both residential and commercial. Joseph also has significant experience in all facets of real estate work-outs and restructurings and acts as real estate counsel for receivers.
Joseph is recognized as a leading lawyer in The Best Lawyers™ in Canada for real estate law.
Martine is a partner in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group, with a focus on commercial litigation.
Martine acts for a broad range of clients, including individuals and corporations, both big and small. She recognizes that every client needs advice and a legal strategy that best suits their needs, with consideration of the financial costs of litigation. She has acted in a variety of matters, including cases involving real estate and property disputes, shareholder disputes, oppression remedy proceedings, Mareva and other injunctive proceedings, negligence claims, contractual disputes and estate litigation.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Martine devoted an extensive amount of her life to training for and playing hockey at the highest level. She was a Division I All-American at the University of New Hampshire, and also played for the Team Canada Under 22 women’s hockey team program for several years. Martine worked her way up from being at the bottom of the Under 22 program’s rankings (and not making the team her first year), to becoming part of the Team Canada Senior National team. Martine achieved a lifelong dream of playing for the Senior National Team at the Four Nations Tournament in Sweden in front of her family.
Martine brings to the court room the same work ethic, intensity and intelligence that she did to the arena. While she is a fierce advocate, she also recognizes that not all problems require litigation and early resolution is often the best result for clients. Where litigation is necessary, Martine will take a practical and strategic approach in order to advance her clients’ interests.
When she is not litigating, Martine and her wife, Suzanne, try to keep up with their two wonderful and exhausting children, Jack and Shea. She also tries to find time to stay active, either golfing and trying to keep her drives on the fairway, or playing hockey.
Martine is a member of the firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and understands the importance of making the firm a more diverse and inclusive place to work.
Representative Work
- Represented an individual shareholder in an arbitration. The arbitrator dismissed the opposing parties’ claims of oppression against the client and further denied their request to wind up the corporation.
- Represented a commercial landlord and successfully received an order for security for costs against a defaulting tenant corporation.
- Represented a dentist in a claim against him relating to the sale of his dental practice.
- Represented an individual shareholder who jointly owned a motor vehicle dealership with a friend. The client alleged oppression against the defendants. The Court found the defendants had oppressed our client, and awarded damages: Tahmasebi v Hamid, 2021 ONSC 3775 (CanLII).
- Represented a mortgagee in obtaining judgment against defaulting mortgagor following power of sale.
- Represented First Nations’ client in action involving dispute over reserve land.
- Represented a corporation in an oppression remedy application brought by a shareholder.
- Represented a commercial landlord in an action for unpaid rents against a tenant that vacated the premises prior to the expiry of the lease.
- Represented an exporter in a claim against a supplier for breach of the Sale of Goods Act.
- Represented a corporation and its principal in a defamation lawsuit against a former business partner.
- Represented a musician in a breach of contract claim by a former manager.
- Represented a motor vehicle dealership in defending claim by a former customer.
- Represented a not-for-profit corporation in dispute against former partner in a project.
- Represented a manufacturer of goods against a distributor in a claim for breach of contract, unjust enrichment and a claim for fraudulent conveyance under the Fraudulent Conveyances Act. Martine successfully obtained a Mareva injunction against the defendants at the outset of litigation: S. Cohen Inc. v FD Apparel Limited, 2017 ONSC 2734 (CanLII).
Jeff practices in the firm’s Real Estate Group.
Jeff focuses his practice on all aspects of real estate acquisitions and dispositions and real estate development with a particular emphasis on shopping centres, housing development projects and mixed use developments, including structuring and settling various co-ownership agreements, management agreements and related financings.
Jeff has been involved in the development of some of Canada’s largest new format or power shopping centres including the land acquisition, joint development agreements with anchor users and processing the development through the entire municipal approvals process and the sale of portions to anchor users.
Micheline is a partner in the firm’s business law group.
Micheline has a diverse corporate commercial practice with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. She has worked on a range of domestic and cross-border deals and regularly acts on various corporate reorganizations, financings and corporate governance matters. Micheline quickly becomes a trusted advisor for clients, helping them navigate the legal complexities of buying and selling businesses. She is known for her determination in times that are critical to a transaction.
She received her HBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business and her JD from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Prior to being admitted to the bar and joining Foglers as an associate, Micheline was both a summer and articling student with the firm. Micheline is a guest lecturer at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) and is an advisor for TMU’s Law & Business Clinic. She also participates in student recruitment at Foglers.
Samantha is a litigator who delivers sincerity and strategic foresight.
Samantha has more than a decade of experience in business disputes, real estate disputes and professional liability claims. She is a business-minded litigator who offers a customized litigation experience for her clients. She actively listens to her clients concerns, examines the big picture, and proactively problem-solves.
Samantha is the incoming Chair of the civil litigation section executive of the Ontario Bar Association and has chaired many professional development programs for early and mid career lawyers on professional liability claims, business development and practice management.
Samantha has acted as counsel in trials and motions for summary judgment involving solicitor negligence claims, disputes over breached real estate agreements, and other contractual disputes before the Ontario Superior Court, the Court of Appeal for Ontario the Supreme Court of British Columbia.
Samantha is currently enrolled in the Executive MBA with the Ivey School of Business. At Folgers, Samantha is co-chair of the Fogler’s Business Development Committee and is excited to train early-career lawyers on the business of lawyering.
Peter provides clients with clear, comprehensive advice and creative tax solutions.
His practice focuses on taxation, wills and estate planning advice to high net worth individuals, and general corporate commercial law.
He advises corporate clients on a broad range of matters, including reorganizations, financings, acquisitions and divestitures, the sale of private corporations to strategic buyers, shareholder agreements and executive compensation arrangements.
Michael’s practice is focused on securities, corporate finance, corporate governance and mergers and acquisitions in the mining industry.
He advises Canadian and international clients in connection with a wide range of public equity and debt offerings. Michael has represented mining clients in mining asset and stock purchase transactions, the formation of joint ventures and drafting and negotiating mining agreements.
Eric practices corporate and commercial litigation and dispute resolution with a special focus on trust, estate and charity/not-for-profit law. Eric also has extensive experience in construction litigation and real property disputes.
Eric also mediates commercial and estate/trust/capacity disputes, helping the parties find a mutually beneficial resolution. The parties, and their lawyers, appreciate Eric’s ability to understand what is truly important to each person and help them develop solutions which allow them to move on, leaving the litigation behind them.
Eric has appeared as counsel at all levels of Ontario courts and at the Supreme Court of Canada.
Eric regularly appears before the Toronto Estates List. His broad experience in trust and estate disputes includes passing of accounts, will challenges, guardianships, dependant relief applications, interpretations, variations, rectifications, and related proceedings.
Eric’s experience in construction, real property and commercial leasing disputes includes construction lien and trust claims, professional negligence, product liability, mining, land rights, boundary and mortgage enforcement proceedings.
As a corporate commercial litigator, Eric has helped clients with fraud investigation and recovery, shareholder disputes, oppression remedies, debt collection, foreign judgement enforcement and risk management advice for private companies.
Karl emphasizes a practical approach when assisting clients, first by communicating and understanding the issues they care about and then tailoring his services to best meet those needs in a cost-effective and communicative manner. His goal in every matter, small or large, is for clients to understand and appreciate the value add that he has brought to the table.
As a Partner in the Business Law Group, Karl has diverse expertise. Mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructurings are his primary focus. He also assists with private equity offerings, capital raises and has assisted borrowers and lenders on secured financing transactions. Recently, Limited Partnership real estate joint ventures have also become a key component of his practice.
Entrepreneurial-focused and keen to be at the forefront of emerging industries, Karl is currently developing a practice focusing on startup/high-growth companies to assist them as they navigate starting and/or scaling their businesses. His goal is to provide clients with crucial practical advice in the early stages related to, among other things, formation, founder/shareholder/partnership structure, and early-stage capital raises and securities law compliance. Clients are often surprised by the multitude of important decisions to be made early in the process that will shape the scaling of their business. Being at a full-service firm also gives him access to experts in IP, Privacy and Employment to provide additional expertise in these crucial areas.
Karl is an enthusiastic member of the Associates Committee and the Student Recruitment Committee at Foglers.
Justin is a disputes partner with Fogler, Rubinoff with a broad litigation, administrative law and automotive law practice. Justin represents a diverse client base including lawyers, motor vehicle dealers, automotive manufacturers, dealer groups, salespersons, cannabis retailers, private career colleges, real estate professionals and a wide variety of other Ontario licence holders.
Justin is a certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a civil litigation specialist and regularly represents clients before all levels of Ontario court and the Licence Appeal Tribunal. Hard work, attention to detail and the fostering of relationships between counsel, clients, the judiciary and other decision makers are the cornerstones of Justin’s practice ethos.
Justin’s main practice areas are:
- Automotive, transportation and dealership law
- Motor Vehicle Dealers Act
- Repair and Storage Liens Act
- Cannabis Licence Act
- Private Career Colleges Act
- OMVIC licensing and registration
- RECO licensing and registration
- LSO licensing and registration
- Provincial offence charges
- Workplace health and safety and related offences
- Fire code matters and related offences
- Debtor/creditor remedies
In addition to providing litigation support, Justin regularly assists clients in obtaining and maintaining their professional licences. Justin’s attention to detail, combined with his good working relationship with many regulators and licencing bodies allows him to assist clients in obtaining efficient and quality results. If required, Justin is not afraid to challenge regulators and their sometimes unreasonable positions. He has had significant court and tribunal success in defending his client’s rights and navigating the complex world of professional regulation.
Justin is one of only a few lawyers in Ontario with a specialized focus on dealership law. Justin’s extensive experience allows him to assist dealerships, salespersons and mechanics with all matters involving the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council and the Ministries of Transportation and Environment. With respect to the emergent cannabis industry, Justin assists clients in their interactions with the AGCO and obtaining (or maintaining) operator licences, retail store authorizations, and cannabis retail manager licences. Justin has also successfully represented clients before the licence appeal tribunal on some of the first matters to be heard under the Cannabis Licence Act.
With a client centered approach, Justin aims to provide effective, efficient and practical legal representation.
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