Sahar Cadili

Sahar Cadili is a commercial and estates litigator who represents individuals, corporations, shareholders, business owners and estates in complex and high-stakes disputes. Her practice has a particular focus on urgent and interlocutory relief, including Mareva injunctions and other extraordinary remedies to protect assets, preserve evidence, prevent dissipation of property, and safeguard her clients’ legal and commercial interests.

Her commercial litigation practice includes shareholder and oppression disputes, corporate and contractual disputes, real estate and property litigation, disputes involving financial institutions, and proceedings involving the recovery and preservation of funds. She approaches litigation strategically, with an emphasis on practical solutions and outcomes that serve her clients’ broader business and financial interests.

Sahar also maintains a substantial estates litigation practice. She represents beneficiaries, estate trustees, executors, attorneys, and other interested parties in disputes concerning wills, estates, and the management of property and financial affairs. Her experience includes:

• Will challenges;
• Disputes concerning testamentary capacity and undue influence;
• Challenges to the validity or exercise of powers of attorney for property and personal care;
• Disputes involving estate trustees, passing of accounts; and
• Other claims concerning estate assets

The two areas of Sahar’s practice frequently converge, particularly in disputes involving family wealth and closely held businesses. These disputes often involve overlapping issues of shareholder rights, oppression, wills, powers of attorney, estate assets and competing claims to title, requiring a coordinated approach across both commercial and estates law. Sahar’s experience in both areas enables her to address these interconnected issues as part of a cohesive litigation strategy.

Sahar regularly appears before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, including the Commercial List and Estates List, and has also appeared before the Ontario Court of Appeal.  She brings a practical, efficient and results-focused approach to complex litigation.

• Successfully obtained a worldwide Mareva injunction without notice in complex litigation arising from a sophisticated fraud scheme involving numerous entities, shell companies, mortgage brokers and legal professionals, preserving and facilitating the tracing of assets and funds across multiple entities and transactions, and successfully resisted a subsequent motion seeking to set aside the injunction Maxol Wealth Investments Inc. v. Arash Missaghi, et al., 2024 ONSC 3179 (CanLII).
• On an urgent basis, successfully obtained an injunction preventing the imminent closing of sale of a property in an estates dispute and obtained an order for the immediate removal of an Estate Trustee During Litigation (ETDL).
• Successfully obtained numerous Certificates of Pending Litigation in various property ownership disputes to protect clients’ interests in real property.
• On an urgent basis, prepared materials for a complex and time-sensitive application resulting in an Anton Piller Order, permitting the client to search for and seize crucial evidence for use in civil proceedings against breaching parties.
• Successfully secured an injunction in a corporate governance dispute involving a religious organization.
• Represented shareholders in an oppression proceeding involving significant real estate portfolio in the Greater Toronto Area, achieving a highly favourable settlement for the clients only weeks before trial.
• Successfully obtained orders requiring the production of banking records, online banking passwords and other financial information on behalf of an aggrieved shareholder.
• Successfully defended an appeal arising from a shareholder dispute and oppression remedy proceeding, allowing the oppressed shareholder to collect on a substantial damages award.

• Co-Presenter, “How to Work Effectively With your Damages Expert,” Toronto Lawyers Association, February 2025
• Author, “Court of Appeal Decides Fate of “Crypto King” $500,000 Deposit,” Dickinson Wright Cross-Border & Canadian Business Blog, October 2024
• Author, “A Reminder to Purchasers of the True Cost of Not Closing – It’s not ‘Just the Deposit,’” Dickinson Wright All Things Canada Blog, May 2021
• Co-Author, “Virtual Witnessing of Wills and POAs During COVID-19,” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, April 2020
• Co-Chair of Ontario Bar Association Program titled TechXp (2017)
• Chair of Ontario Bar Association Program titled “Assessments: Understanding the Process and Procedure” (2017)
• Co-Chair of Ontario Bar Association Program titled “Effective Litigation Strategies on Motions and at Trial” (2017)
• Contributor to the second edition of Enforcing Judgments and Orders (2^nd ed.) LexisNexis 2016
• Speaker and Author of “Motions for Security for Costs” for Ontario Bar Association Program titled “Litigation Costs” (2015)