Shareholder and Partnership Disputes (including Dissent and Oppression claims)
Shareholder and partnership disputes can arise from a wide range of circumstances - dissent and oppression claims, shareholder disagreements, financial misconduct, and conflicts over corporate decisions. These situations often require independent financial analysis to assess value, quantify damages, and provide clarity for negotiations, arbitration, or litigation.
VLSS can support clients through these complex shareholder and partnership matters with objective, defensible, and independent valuation and forensic expertise.
Our shareholder and partnership dispute services include:
Independent valuations to support buy-outs, triggered events, or disputes among shareholders or partners, or for dissenting shareholder proceedings
Fair value determinations in the context of oppression claims
Analysis of financial prejudice, including dilution, diversion of value, and preferential treatment
Quantification of economic loss arising from unfair or oppressive conduct, fiduciary breaches, misappropriation of funds, or interference with business operations
Reviewing and rebutting opposing expert reports
Providing expert witness testimony, including acting as a court-appointed or jointly retained expert
Advisory support on valuation methodologies, transaction structuring, and settlement strategy
Selected representative experience includes:
Construction and maintenance - Valuation of a construction and maintenance company as part of a shareholder dispute. Our report was used by the majority shareholder to buy out the minority shareholder.
Decontamination services - Retained on behalf of minority shareholder to value a commercial cleaning and decontamination company in the context of a shareholder oppression dispute.
Commercial landscaping - Valuation of a commercial landscaping company in the context of a shareholder oppression dispute. Retained on behalf of minority shareholder.
Online retailer - Valuation of an online retailer of footwear as part of a shareholder dispute. We were retained by the applicant to prepare a valuation report setting out the fair value of his shares.
Architect firm – Retained by the company in a wrongful termination case to respond to a valuation report opining on the value of the plaintiff's preferred shares under multiple valuation approaches.