CP Law acts on a wide spectrum of sophisticated legal matters — advising clients through major transactions, corporate growth, commercial disputes, and complex litigation with clarity, precision, and strategic insight.
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Obtained highly favourable settlement on behalf of a client against a brokerage that had permitted the client’s estranged spouse to deplete hundreds of thousands of dollars from her RRSP and investment accounts without authorization.
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Successful trial for the ownership and valuation of shares in a closely held corporation. Both parties asserted that the corporate minute book was inaccurate. Our client argued that the shareholder registry had not been updated to reflect her 50% ownership interest; the opposing shareholder asserted that the minute book failed to show that preferred shares had been issued on a 50-50 basis but was accurate in showing that our client held only a 30% ownership interest.
The court found that our client was in fact a 50% common shareholder, and the common shares in the company were valued on that basis.
We also advanced a constructive trust claim that the parties’ conduct over the years entitled our client to a 50% interest in the business. The trial judge also held that, even if our client did not own 50% of the common shares in fact, the court would impose a constructive trust over the 20% difference to make the parties’ ownership interests equal.
Our client was not statute barred from bringing the claim, as the court agreed with our position that a reasonable person would not have commenced a lawsuit while they were being treated as a 50% shareholder of the company.
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Counsel to project managers in an arbitration to determine their compensation for overseeing a large multi-building condominium development. Obtained a highly favourable settlement on eve of hearing enabling clients to purchase the entire property.
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Successfully responded to an appeal in the Alberta Court of Appeal (Export Development Corporation v MNP Ltd, 2025 ABCA 25 (CanLII)). The appellant sought to set aside the court at first instance’s decision to assign claims under an insurance contract to a creditor over the insurers objection. Michael had the opportunity to share his unique insights in the legal magazine, Take Five Alberta (Feb 2025). “More than anything else,” says Michael, “the Court of Appeal’s decision … continues the trend toward broad and permissive interpretation of court powers in overseeing commercial insolvencies…”
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Daniel Chitiz and Michael Crampton of CP LLP successfully represented the defendant vendor in Gil Shcolyar v. Bensher Holdings Limited, 2025 ONSC 2205. The court dismissed the purchaser’s action to compel the vendor to sell its land after the purchaser failed to close the transaction. We also obtained a declaration that the vendor is entitled to retain the deposits.
Claim commenced to enforce the terms of an agreement after the purchaser of a book of business from an investment advisor sought to reduce the purchase price. The matter was converted to an arbitration and concluded with a highly favourable award for our client.
Overcame defaulting borrower’s attempts to delay, and obtained summary judgment for possession of the property and the full amount our client was contractually entitled to.