Sara Romeih

Sara is a litigator at Ross Nasseri LLP. She has a broad commercial, regulatory and administrative law practice which includes contractual disputes, professional negligence actions, shareholder disputes, defamation, and fraud. She regularly represents companies, businesspersons, and professionals in regulated industries.

Sara is committed to advocating for her clients' rights in and out of the courtroom. She has successfully represented clients at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Commercial List, the Ontario Divisional Court, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, and before arbitrators in confidential commercial arbitrations. Her practice often involves injunctions and extraordinary remedies, including obtaining Mareva orders through urgent motions and applications.

Prior to joining the firm, Sara practiced civil litigation and criminal defence. Sara graduated from the combined dual Juris Doctor/Master of Arts in International Affairs at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law and Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs where she graduated on the Dean’s Honour List. During law school, she was a member of the World Trade Organization moot team that reached the semi-finals in Washington D.C. and was awarded for their written submissions. Sara previously worked at Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada’s litigation unit and at the Legal Bureau of Global Affairs Canada.

Sara serves as a member of the Young Advocates’ Standing Committee of The Advocates’ Society where she is an editor for Keeping Tabs. She is a member of the Advocates’ Society, the Ontario Bar Association, and the Group of Racialized Ontario Women Litigators.

Representative Matters

• Successful counsel for a company in an oppression arbitration. Secured an order for the buyout and removal of a director/shareholder for misconduct against the company, an award on behalf of the company for breach of fiduciary duty, punitive damages, and substantial indemnity costs

• Counsel to a significant Ontario developer handling all regulatory and civil litigation issues arising from a development project

• Counsel to healthcare professionals and complainants in administrative proceedings under the Regulated Health Professions Act

• Acted for co-owners of a closely held concrete business on an application for corporate oppression, fraud, misuse of company property, and successfully resisted the appointment of a receiver

• Acting for the plaintiff in obtaining an urgent, ex parte CPL to secure a claim for breach of an assignment agreement for a residential property, involving allegations of fraud

• Counsel to a contractor in several proceedings decided under the ODACC regime

Decisions

• Beaudin v. Travelers Insurance Company of Canada, 2022 ONCA 806 – counsel to the successful appellant in an appeal concerning the correct statutory interpretation of Ontario’s Off-Road Vehicles Act
• Wayne Safety Inc. v. Diana Gendelman et al., 2023 ONSC 2478 – successful in obtaining extraordinary relief in the form of Anton Piller, Mareva, Norwich relief and multiple certificates of pending litigation to address an ongoing fraud
• 2371143 Ontario Inc. v. Canaan Art Centre Inc., 2024 ONSC 1004 — successfully brought a summary judgment on liability and damages for a commercial lease enforcement, and obtained a substantial indemnity costs award
• Markham Travel Health Clinic et al. v. Tians Medical Services Inc., 2023 ONSC (unreported) – successfully resisted an injunction arising in the context of a contract dispute related to Covid-19 testing
• Brookfield Residential (Ontario) Limited v. Yuskov, 2022 ONSC 2162 (unreported) – brought a motion for summary judgment and secured damages against a purchaser who failed to close on a property transaction
• Maple Equipment & Leasing Inc. v. DS&D Personnel Inc., 2022 ONSC 2097— counsel on appeal to the Divisional Court involving the terms of a shotgun buy/sell agreement
• R. v. Pogachar, 2021 ONSC 5826 – counsel on a complex section 11(b) Charter application seeking stay of proceedings of securities fraud and theft over

Firm

• Best Law Firms in Canada 2025:
  • Tier 1 Nationally for Corporate and Commercial Litigation
  • Tier 1 in Toronto for Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Administrative and Public Law, Appellate Practice
• Chambers Canada 2025: Highly Regarded firm in Commercial Litigation in Ontario (2024)
• Lexpert :
  • Recognized as a Consistently Recommended firm for Corporate/Commercial Litigation (2024)
  • Repeatedly Recommended firm for Professional Liability by Lexpert (2024)
  • Who’s Who Bullseye for leading firms in Civil Litigation (2024)
  • Who’s Who Bullseye for leading firms in Commercial Litigation (2024)
• Benchmark Litigation :
  • Leading litigation firm in Canada (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Highly Recommended Firm (2025)
  • Litigation Boutique Firm of the Year (2025)
• RN LLP recognized in The Globe and Mail’s Canada’s Best Law Firms list for Dispute Resolution (Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations) (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

• Reflecting Economic Realities: When Should Courts Deviate from the Standard Prejudgment Interest?, Keeping Tabs, Winter 2024
• Lucas v. Semelhago: Is it Open Season for Specific Performance? in Justice Darla A. WIlson (ed.), Annual Review of Civil Litigation, 2024 (Thomson Reuters) (co-authored with Gordon Vance and Daniel Milton)
• “Increasing Mortgage Interest During the Term – Confirming the Loophole Around s. 8 of the Interest Act” October 13, 2022 (co-authored with Avi Bourassa)
• J.B. v. Ontario: Duty of Care in the Context of Child Protection Cases, Toronto Law Journal, May 2020.

• Lucas v. Semelhago: Is it Open Season for Specific Performance? in Justice Darla A. WIlson (ed.), Annual Review of Civil Litigation, 2024 (Thomson Reuters) (co-authored with Gordon Vance and Daniel Milton)
• Presenter, "Keeping Current for Civil Litigators Series", Ontario Bar Association, February 27, 2024
• Moderator, “Build Your Book”, Group of Racialized Ontario Women Litigators, November 29, 2023