Milosevic & Associates

10/15/2026

Corporate collapses and high-profile investment failures highlight the severe financial and legal risks facing Ontario real estate investors. When multi-property portfolios or investment syndications unravel, participants often face complicated disputes involving mortgages, lender liability, and asset recovery.

Understanding your legal rights, contractual commitments, and options for pursuing recovery is essential when dealing with distressed investments.

Read more in our latest blog: https://ow.ly/5BLM50ZY30G

Affected by the Simple Investor collapse in Ontario? Learn about SIREG insolvency, unpaid rental income and investors' legal rights.

10/05/2026

When sophisticated financial fraud occurs, victims often look to financial institutions to recover their losses. Under Canadian law, banks are generally obligated to execute authorized customer instructions promptly, but under narrow circumstances - such as the legal principle known as the Quincecare duty - a bank may owe a duty to refuse or delay a transfer if there are clear red flags indicating that an authorized agent is defrauding the customer.

Read our latest blog post to learn when financial institutions can be held legally accountable for failing to detect or prevent fraudulent transactions: https://ow.ly/JiGj50ZT9XH

A JPMorgan whistleblower report raises issues around bank fraud, scam reimbursements and civil fraud recovery in Toronto.

09/29/2026

Destroying or altering evidence during ongoing or anticipated legal disputes carries severe consequences. The Supreme Court has provided critical clarification on the doctrine of spoliation in commercial litigation, establishing clear guidance on how courts treat missing evidence and what it means for corporate document retention practices.

Whether managing routine data purges or handling active disputes, understanding your legal obligations to preserve evidence is crucial to mitigating severe procedural and financial risks.

Read more in our latest blog: https://ow.ly/E8rE50ZS0g9

The Supreme Court clarifies spoliation, adverse inferences and damages in commercial litigation involving destroyed or missing evidence.

09/23/2026

Securing a favourable commercial judgment is only half the battle when a debtor’s assets, bank accounts, or operations extend beyond Ontario’s borders. Whether you are seeking to enforce an Ontario judgment in another province or country, or pursuing foreign assets held locally, cross-border recovery requires a strategic combination of reciprocal enforcement frameworks, asset tracing, and local court recognition.

Explore key strategies for cross-border asset recovery in the final installment of our judgment enforcement series: https://ow.ly/cYLl50ZQ9LP

Learn how Ontario judgments can be enforced across Canada and abroad, including foreign judgment recognition and cross-border asset recovery.

09/16/2026

When a crypto project suddenly collapses or developers pull liquidity, investors are often told that nothing can be done due to on-chain anonymity. Civil litigation offers real, enforceable mechanisms to trace lost assets and hold bad actors accountable.

Our latest blog breaks down how civil fraud actions work when responding to crypto rug pulls. We outline how urgent legal remedies like Mareva injunctions and Norwich Pharmacal disclosure orders can freeze assets and unmask anonymous wallet holders across centralized exchanges.

Read the full article to understand the key legal strategies available for recovering digital assets: https://ow.ly/W7vI50ZNVBv

Learn how crypto rug pulls work and how Toronto civil fraud claims may involve asset tracing, Norwich orders, and freezing injunctions.

09/14/2026

Milosevic & Associates is pleased to welcome Andrew Morganti to our Firm, as we expand our class action practice on behalf of investors. Andrew brings with him over 25 years of experience prosecuting antitrust and securities class actions on behalf of small business owners and investors in Canada and the United States of America.

Andrew’s has achieved first-of-kind court decisions and multiple class action settlements in Canada and the United States of America. Most recently, he was lead counsel representing investors in the Ontario securities class action against Wayland Group Corp. and Benjamin Ward, the former CEO, where there was a settlement with the company and a $53 million judgement against Ward. His legal work was also pivotal in the successful results in advancing price-fixing claims involving packaged ice, polyurethane foam, and pharmaceutical drugs.

He was previously associated with two of the largest law firms known for antitrust and securities class actions. His own law firm was ranked five years by ISS-SCAS as being within the top 50 securities class action firms in North America measured by recoveries to investors.

Welcome, Andrew!

09/01/2026

Securing a favourable court judgment is often only the first step toward actual financial recovery. When a judgment debtor fails or refuses to pay, creditors must utilize Ontario’s statutory enforcement mechanisms - such as writs of seizure and sale - to reach physical property, real estate, and corporate assets. Successfully liquidating assets requires strategic ex*****on, including registering writs with the Sheriff, navigating priority rules among competing creditors, and taking targeted legal action against debtor attempts to shelter or transfer commercial holdings.

Read our latest blog post to explore effective strategies for judgment enforcement against property and business assets in Ontario:

Learn how Ontario creditors may enforce judgments against real estate, business assets, receivables, equipment, and inventory.

08/19/2026

In corporate litigation, legal liability isn't always limited to those with official titles on paper. Individuals who exercise de facto control or act as shadow directors can still face significant personal exposure in corporate disputes.

Understanding how courts evaluate operational influence, decision-making power, and fiduciary responsibilities is critical for officers, major shareholders, and advisory figures alike.

Read our latest blog post to learn more about how de facto control is expanding liability in modern corporate disputes:

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Learn how shadow directors and de facto control expand liability in Ontario commercial litigation and what it means for your business.

08/14/2026

Securing a commercial judgment establishes a debt, but collecting it requires locating assets that debtors may attempt to hide or transfer to family members, holding companies, or related businesses. In part three of our judgment enforcement series, we review how creditors can trace missing assets, challenge fraudulent conveyances, and use post-judgment examinations to recover owed funds.

Read part three of our judgment enforcement series via the link below.

https://ow.ly/lhmx50ZzVm5

Learn how garnishment, writs, and debtor examinations support judgment enforcement and asset recovery in Ontario commercial disputes.

08/07/2026

Unauthorized trading and churning represent severe breaches of an investment advisor’s fiduciary duties and regulatory obligations under Ontario law. Executing trades without explicit client consent or engaging in excessive trading to generate commissions grounds civil liability for breach of trust, breach of contract, and professional negligence. Establishing liability requires proving the advisor departed from the client's risk profile and caused quantifiable losses, allowing investors to seek compensatory damages and commission disgorgement.

Our latest blog details the legal benchmarks for proving advisor misconduct in Ontario and the civil remedies available to investors: https://ow.ly/c4Ub50Zx5Xv

Learn how to spot unauthorized trading and churning. Ontario investors may have legal options to recover losses from advisor misconduct.