Commercial disputes
Contracts, shareholders, partnerships, oppression, and derivative claims — commercial disputes, tried properly.
Forecourt
Opening the file…
How we can help
Litigation, investigation, and the recovery work that follows.
Forecourt is retained when the file is commercial, fraudulent, or both — and when the facts must be gathered to a standard counsel can plead from.
What we take
The legal work
Trial and appellate advocacy for commercial disputes, civil fraud, investment loss, and the enforcement that follows a judgment — including files other lawyers send when the matter is already serious.
Civil fraud
Employee fraud, investment and broker misconduct, cryptocurrency, mortgage and real estate fraud, with urgent preservation of assets when required.
Investment loss & securities
Advisor liability and multi-party investor claims, including recovery work after the money has already moved.
Commercial real estate
Purchase and sale fights, certificates of pending litigation, and mortgage disputes that cannot wait for a leisurely timetable.
Professional liability
Lawyer negligence, investment advisor liability, and directors’ and officers’ claims — including the reputational overlay that travels with them.
Defamation
Libel and slander for clients who need the record corrected without turning the dispute into a second spectacle.
Asset recovery & enforcement
Judgment enforcement, foreign judgments, receiverships, Mareva injunctions, and the unglamorous work of collecting what a court has already given.
Class actions & appeals
Defence of small and mid-sized companies in class proceedings, and appeals through Divisional Court, the Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Same assignment
The investigative work
Licensed, documented, and written so it can be explained under oath. Available around the clock when the facts will not wait.
Corporate & commercial
Internal theft, workplace misconduct, obligation checks, due diligence, asset tracing, and the intelligence a board needs before it acts.
Surveillance
Lawful, documented field operations designed for later use in a proceeding, not for theatre.
Litigation support
Evidence development for law firms: statements, locates, background, and reports written to a courtroom standard.
Background & due diligence
Pre-transaction and pre-relationship inquiries for clients who would rather know now than explain later.
Digital & device work
Computer forensics, phone and tablet recovery, identity theft, and online fraud — collected so it can be explained under oath.
Insurance & undercover
Insurance fraud files and undercover operations run inside the limits of provincial licensing and professional ethics.
Recovery
Banks and digital-asset issuers, when the file requires them.
Recoveries sometimes run through the banking system, and sometimes through the issuers of digital dollars. We work with those rails when a freeze, a trace, or a return of value depends on them.
That work is done privately. This page will not name, link, or parade counterparties. If your matter involves an exchange, a wire, or a stablecoin, say so in the consultation. Assignment follows the facts.
Questions
Before you write.
Assignment stays with Forecourt. The form does not retain anyone. The privacy policy is on this site.
- Do I choose the law firm or the investigators?
- No. Forecourt assigns the file. You answer the questions once. You do not choose counsel versus inquiry as a menu, and you do not begin the work at an operating firm.
- Does submitting the form retain anyone?
- No. A mandate is written later, if at all. A consultation is a first contact. It does not create a solicitor-client or investigator-client relationship and it does not start a limitation strategy.
- How soon will someone reply?
- A principal replies within one business day, and sooner when you mark the matter urgent. The briefing is read and the desk is assigned before anyone is retained.
- Is this confidential?
- Briefings are read by a principal and the assigned desk. We do not publish inquiries. Who sees a submission, and how long it is kept, is in the privacy policy.
- When do fees start?
- Nothing is billed for sending a briefing. Fees start only if you accept a written mandate. How those fees are structured depends on the file and is set out before work begins.
- I already have a lawyer. Can Forecourt still help?
- Yes. Say so in the consultation. Forecourt can assign inquiry in support of existing counsel, additional advocacy, or both. We will not step on a retainer you already have without being asked.
- What if a limitation period or court date is close?
- Put the date in the summary and mark the matter urgent. A consultation does not stop a clock. A principal will read urgent briefings first.
- Are you available after hours? Is inquiry 24/7?
- Inquiry can be assigned around the clock when the facts will not wait. The consultation desk replies within one business day; urgent briefings are read sooner. This is not a 24/7 emergency line for every kind of matter.
- Do you take criminal files? Is this a police filing?
- Forecourt assigns civil and commercial work, and licensed inquiry that can be explained under oath. We do not take a police report for you, and sending a briefing is not a criminal filing. If the facts also engage the criminal law, say so; assignment still happens here.
- Do you work with banks and digital-asset issuers?
- When a recovery requires those rails, yes. We do not publish a roster, and we do not link counterparties from this site. If a wire, an exchange, or an issuer of digital dollars is involved, say so in the consultation. Write to briefing@web-forecourt.com if a form is the wrong instrument.
Tell us what happened. We will assign the team.