Fredrick Ramsay Schumann

Fredrick focuses on high-stakes commercial disputes and investigations involving alleged financial misconduct, market behaviour, and other matters where civil litigation intersects with regulatory or criminal exposure. He is frequently retained to defend executives, companies, and public-facing organizations in matters that are legally complex, fact-intensive, and reputationally sensitive.

His practice includes major commercial arbitrations, civil fraud and asset-tracing proceedings, urgent injunction and enforcement matters, Competition Act investigations and follow-on litigation and class actions. He regularly advises boards, senior management, and executives on internal investigations and parallel civil, regulatory, and criminal risk.

Fredrick has represented senior public officials and corporate leaders in high-profile investigations and inquiries, and has defended individuals and organizations facing allegations of serious misconduct. He is often retained where expert evidence, institutional risk, and reputational consequences are central.

He appears regularly before the Ontario courts, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Before joining Stockwoods, Fredrick clerked for the Honourable Justice Ian Binnie at the Supreme Court of Canada and was selected as a Fox Scholar, training with leading commercial barristers’ chambers in London, England.

Represented Selena Stronach in a commercial arbitration concerning the valuation of 1/ST Racing. Worked with business valuation experts and real estate appraisers in developing reports and preparing to testify. Designed and conducted cross-examination of both opposing appraisers on value of racetrack real estate, addressing complex issues of land use regulation and valuation modelling. Succeeded at the arbitration in a high-value award, which was affirmed on judicial review. ( Stronach v. Stronach , 2025 ONSC 7158 )