Viktor Nikolov

Viktor Nikolov is a litigator at Ross Nasseri. He maintains a broad civil litigation and regulatory practice.

Viktor is a skilled advocate, with extensive experience representing clients in commercial litigation, regulatory and environmental matters, arbitrations, and class actions across multiple jurisdictions. Viktor’s diligent preparation and strategic approach to advocacy, allow him to obtain excellent outcomes for clients inside and outside the courtroom.

Prior to joining Ross Nasseri, Viktor practiced as a litigator at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, a leading national full-service firm, where he acted for a broad range of clients in business-critical disputes. His breadth of litigation experience includes complex commercial disputes, regulatory matters, class actions, insolvency proceedings, and commercial arbitrations.

Viktor obtained his J.D. at Queen’s University where he represented prison inmates in administrative tribunal hearings through the Queen’s Prison Law Clinic. During law school Viktor was actively involved in the Queen’s Law competitive mooting program, placing first overall at the Queen’s Litigation Society Moot, advancing to the finals of the Hicks Morley Moot, and representing Queen’s in the Davies Corporate/Securities Moot.

Prior to law school, Viktor obtained a Bachelor of Arts, Combined Honours in Human Rights and Law, with a concentration in Business Law from Carleton University, where he graduated with High Distinction.

• Representing a pharmaceutical company in a complex multi-jurisdictional class action.
• Representing large public companies as debtors in insolvency proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act.
• Representing a multinational franchisor in the arbitration of an international franchise dispute.
• Representing a municipality in a complex construction dispute relating to a public project.
• Representing a financial institution in the trial defence of a commercial dispute.
• Representing a homeowner in the trial defence of a construction dispute.
• Representing a taxpayer in the trial of their tax appeal.

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)
• Lexpert: Repeatedly Recommended firm for Professional Liability by Lexpert (2024)
• Lexpert: Who’s Who Bullseye for leading firms in Civil Litigation (2024)
• Lexpert: Who’s Who Bullseye for leading firms in Commercial Litigation (2024)
• Benchmark Litigation: Leading litigation firm in Canada (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
• 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)