John Forstrom is a commercial litigation lawyer with over 35 years’ experience advising and representing a wide variety of clients, including individuals, small businesses, public and private corporations and their directors, financial institutions, industry associations and regulatory bodies. He has represented his clients in proceedings before all levels of court in British Columbia, as well as in mediations, arbitrations, and before the BC Securities Commission and other administrative tribunals.

He has extensive experience advising his clients in relation to a broad range of legal issues and disputes, including commercial disputes; corporate governance and shareholder disputes; contract and negligence claims; insolvency and collections matters; real property disputes; estates and trusts litigation; broker-client disputes; wrongful dismissal matters; and professional discipline proceedings before various regulatory bodies (including IIROC, the MFDA and the Law Society). John also has extensive experience dealing with disputes in the logging industry under the system of mediation and arbitration established by the Forest Act.

John has been recognied by Best Lawyers in Canada™ in their 2026 edition.

Hyewon Kim – hkim@ymlaw.ca

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