Dan Chitiz
Trusted counsel and strategist for your high-stakes dispute. Lean on me when it matters most.
CONTACT
416-644-9972
BIO
Business advisor. Trial lawyer. Strategic problem solver.
For over 36 years, Dan Chitiz has helped business owners, investors, executives, and entrepreneurs navigate their most important disputes.
As a founding partner of CP LLP, Dan focuses on high-stakes commercial litigation, shareholder and partnership disputes, contract conflicts, arbitrations, and business succession battles. Clients turn to him when control of a business, a significant investment, or a critical commercial relationship is at risk.
Dan combines deep courtroom experience with practical business judgment. He has acted before every level of court in Ontario and in domestic and international arbitrations across a wide range of industries.
He leads a team that approaches every mandate with a simple philosophy:
Understand the business. Define the objective. Execute relentlessly.
Business or battle. We are your firm.
Bar Admission:
- Ontario, 1990
Education:
- Osgoode Hall Law School, LLB, 1989
REPRESENTATIVE WORK
- Arbitration before a U.S arbitrator under Master Wholesale Agreement and related software agreements in the telecommunications sector
- Successfully arbitrated multi-million dollar dispute on behalf of Canadian franchisee against international master franchisor arising from franchisor’s breach of franchise agreement and good faith obligations
- Successfully arbitrated shortfall in compensation and capital payments between accountants on their termination by a prominent accounting firm
- Successfully arbitrated shareholder dispute between principal operator/shareholder and institutional investor shareholder resulting in a finding of oppression and curative remedies in favour of principal operator relating to operation of business
- Succeeded at trial in dispute between our client and BMO, two innocent parties to a fraud perpetrated on the bank by a third party, over priority entitlement to proceeds in issue. Obtained significant cost award against BMO
- Successful arbitrated before 3-person arbitration panel over applicable lease rate on the extension of the term of a commercial lease
- Administrative Tribunal appeal from agricultural marketing board decision
- Successful arbitration before three-person arbitration panel of working capital dispute under agreement of purchase and sale arising on purchase of prominent media company
- Successful appeal of termination by Facility Association of Agency/Broker Service Carrier Agreement
- Successfully arbitrated wrongful termination of an automobile dealership by a major North American automobile manufacturer
- Successful litigation on behalf of large commercial landlord with anchor tenant for breach of long term lease
- Successful arbitration with substantial indemnity cost award in a real estate matter establishing our client as the sole owners of disputed properties in and around the GTA
- Arbitrated breach of investment advisor’s know your client obligations and negligent investment advice
- Successfully arbitrated Managing General Agency’s agreement wrongful termination of partnership agreement
- Defeated a purchaser’s attempt to compel the vendor in a commercial real estate acquisition to sell its land after the purchaser failed to close the transaction
- Arbitration of a multimillion-dollar contractual dispute involving a large scale real estate development project
- Obtained significant trial judgement in favour of ex-spouse regarding share ownership and valuation of closely held corporation
- Counsel to plaintiff in an investment broker negligence case
- Counsel to estate trustees opposing an application to have them replaced by a corporate trustee