Expropriations
Canada's growing infrastructure activity has led to more businesses being disrupted or displaced by expropriation and construction projects. VLSS can help landowners, tenants, and authorities understand the financial impact of these events and secure fair, defensible compensation.
Our team brings deep expertise in valuing business losses, assessing costs, and providing clear expert evidence for negotiations, mediations, and tribunal proceedings.
Our expropriation dispute services include:
Quantifying business losses and out-of-pocket costs directly tied to expropriation or construction impacts
Assessing relocation costs and operational disruptions
Analyzing historical and forecasted financial performance to determine lost profits and/or lost goodwill
Reviewing leases, contracts, budgets, and economic conditions relevant to the claim
Comparing projected results to actual performance before, during, and after the impacted period(s)
Identifying unrelated factors that may have influenced business results
Preparing clear, defensible independent expert reports for negotiations, mediations, and hearings
Providing advisory consulting and expert witness testimony
Selected representative experience includes:
Gas station - Acted as independent third-party CBV to review and critique opposing expert reports and determine lost profits arising from construction impacts to a commercial gas station.
Lighting design and fabrication – Prepared expert reports which quantified the lost profits of a lighting design and fabrication company arising from the expropriation of a commercial property located in Toronto, Ontario. Our mandate also included the verification of the plaintiff's relocation costs.
Bar and restaurant - Valuation of a bar and restaurant which was shutdown following the expropriation of a commercial property located in Toronto, Ontario.
Convenience store and gas station – Retained on behalf of a municipality accused of improper management of public works resulting in a claim for past lost profits loss and loss of business value by a business affected by the works.