Ivanov Katz LLP

About Ivanov Katz LLP

Ivanov Katz LLP is a litigation firm in downtown Toronto, founded in 2024 by Vladimira Ivanov and Jordan Katz. The two trained together as articling students and litigation lawyers at McCarthy Tetrault LLP before building separate careers: Ivanov became a partner at the litigation firm Ross Nasseri LLP and then a sole practitioner, while Katz became a partner at the litigation firm Adair Goldblatt Bieber LLP. The four lawyer firm handles commercial litigation, corporate and shareholder disputes, real property disputes, tort and negligence claims, and professional liability and regulatory defence for regulated professionals such as physicians, accountants, and lawyers, along with appeals, judicial reviews, and urgent preemptive remedies such as freezing accounts and preserving evidence.

The firm's lawyers have been recognized in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada, the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, and Benchmark Litigation, and the firm names itself among The Globe and Mail's Canada's Best Law Firms 2026. Alongside the two founders, the team includes lawyers Alexia Donis and Hakim Kassam, plus Managing Director Katy Honsberger, who oversees the firm's operations and previously worked in legal talent management at McCarthy Tetrault and Miller Thomson. Honsberger began as a litigation legal assistant at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and then Los Angeles, and later practiced as a litigator at the Center for Family Representation in New York. The office is at 3 Church Street, a restored 1914 building in Toronto's St. Lawrence Market area.