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Foglers Advantage.
77 King Street West
Suite 3000, P.O. Box 95
TD Centre North Tower
Toronto, ON M5K 1G8
2024 Fogler, Rubinoff LLP
Irwin practices in both the Business Law and the Securities Law Groups at the firm, and has extensive experience in a broad range of transactions in the corporate/commercial and securities law areas.
His practice focuses on mergers, acquisitions and dispositions for both private as well as publicly traded issuers, shareholder and joint venture arrangements, and lending and other sophisticated commercial transactions.
Irwin acts on behalf of issuers as well as investment dealers in connection with equity and debt capital market activities, including offerings by way of private placement and prospectus.
His clients have included emerging as well as established private and public companies, and he has advised on a number of cross-border transactions.
Irwin provides corporate and securities law advice related to directors’ duties, related party and other significant transactions, to both issuers as well as market intermediaries.
Irwin’s deep and varied experience in working as a team member with clients in growing their businesses has given him a broad perspective greatly appreciated by his clients. Many of his client relationships are of a very long-standing nature, which is a testament to his professionalism, commitment and client satisfaction focus.
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.
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.
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.
Ian is a partner in the firm’s commercial real estate and banking and financial services groups.
In addition to representing clients in a full range of commercial real estate transactions, including the acquisition, sale and development of commercial, retail, industrial and residential properties, Ian also advises clients on issues related to the structuring of real estate transactions.
Ian has extensive experience in banking and real estate finance with an emphasis on construction and development financing, commercial mortgage lending, equity and mezzanine financing, CMBS mortgage lending, syndicated loan transactions and loan restructuring and enforcement.
Martin is the Senior Partner and Past Chair of the Litigation Department at Fogler, Rubinoff LLP, having joined the firm to article in 1974 and thereafter being an associate and partner in the firm’s Litigation Department.
Martin’s litigation practice consists of all aspects of construction, insolvency, debtor/creditor, litigation and restructuring law, as well as all other aspects of commercial litigation in the broad spectrum. Martin has been involved in various forms of dispute resolution in construction matters, including mediations and arbitrations.
Ian is a Partner in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. He is also the Chair of the Litigation Department.
Ian’s wide-ranging practice includes: commercial litigation with an emphasis on shareholder and partnership disputes, contractual disputes, insurance litigation and coverage disputes, construction litigation (including highway construction and lien matters), real estate disputes, matters before the Office of the Integrity Commissioner (Ontario) and the Mining and Lands Tribunal (Environment and Land Tribunals Ontario), professional negligence, bankruptcy and insolvency litigation, estate litigation, employment disputes, commercial landlord and tenant disputes, environmental litigation, transportation litigation and health law disputes.
Ian represents lawyers, law firms and politicians on litigation and non-litigation matters. He also acts for individuals, corporations and estates on matters which include: shareholder and partnership disputes, oppression remedy proceedings, insurance coverage disputes, injunctive proceedings including employment-related injunctions and Mareva injunctions, defamation (libel and slander), enforcement of guarantees and theft of goods while in transit.
Ian has represented clients before the Ontario Court of Appeal, Divisional Court, Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Ontario Court of Justice, and various tribunals, including the Licence Appeal Tribunal. Ian was counsel on one of the leading cases decided by the Court of Appeal for Ontario on the interpretation of the Tarion Addendum in residential agreements of purchase and sale, and co-counsel on one of the leading cases decided by the same court dealing with the termination of a lease between a commercial landlord and tenant. Prior to joining Fogler, Rubinoff LLP, Ian practiced commercial and insurance litigation at the Waterloo office of a national firm.
Ian has a passion for education. During the Winter 2017 term, he was a Sessional Instructor at the University of Windsor – Faculty of Law where he taught Commercial Law – Secured Transactions. He was also an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School where he taught Commercial Law during the Winter 2019 term. Ian returned to the University of Windsor – Faculty of Law in the Winter 2022 term as a Sessional Instructor where he taught Commercial Law – Secured Transactions.
Ian also conducts speaking engagements both inside and outside of the firm.
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.
Shaun is a Partner in Fogler Rubinoff’s Tax and Wills and Estates departments. He joined the firm in 2013 after previously working at a large boutique Canadian tax firm. His practice centres on corporate and personal taxation and estate planning for owner/managers, entrepreneurs, trusts, and high-net-worth individuals.
Shaun has taken the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants In-Depth Tax Course as well as the CICA In-Depth HST/GST Course. He is a regular contributor to the Fogler, Rubinoff LLP tax newsletter “Dollars and Sense”, is a co-author of The Death of a Taxpayer, and produces an annual webcast for CCH Canadian Limited dealing with estate planning and taxation on death.
Shaun has experience in a number of tax and estates-related areas, including:
- Estate freezes
- Voluntary disclosures
- Owner/manager tax and succession planning including corporate reorganizations
- Will planning and drafting
- Settling trusts, including family, alter ego, joint partner, and others
- Implementing “butterfly” reorganizations (including both 55(3)(a) and (b) reorganizations)
Vern DaRe’s practice focuses exclusively on bankruptcy and insolvency law and creditor and debtor rights.
He has a broad range of experience which includes advising and appearing in court on behalf of receivers, trustees, monitors, secured creditors, landlords, equipment lessors, unsecured creditors and debtors in commercial reorganization, receivership, bankruptcy, liquidation and enforcement proceedings.
Vern is a frequent speaker at bankruptcy and insolvency conferences. He also writes extensively in the area of bankruptcy and insolvency law, and several of his articles have been cited by the courts. He is co-author with John Honsberger of Bankruptcy in Canada (5th ed.) and Debt Restructuring: Principles and Practice and is also a contributing editor of Falconbridge on Mortgages and O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms, chapters “Arrangements with Creditors” and “Bankruptcy and Insolvency”.
Vern was an Adjunct Law Professor for six years at the University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law, where he taught Corporate Reorganization and Bankruptcy and Insolvency Law. He was also an instructor in the Insolvency Law Section of the Ontario Bar Admission course. Before joining Fogler, Rubinoff LLP, Vern practised at major law firms and insolvency boutiques in Halifax and Toronto. He was also legal counsel with the Manitoba Law Reform Commission and prior to private practice clerked with the Chief Justice of the Italian Constitutional Court.
