One sentence from the SCC, and the fight is over for International Capital Management
Canada's top court has shut the door. International Capital Management can't take its fight with Optimize Wealth Management any further.
On May 14, 2026, the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed - with costs - an application for leave to appeal brought by International Capital Management Inc. and two individual applicants, Javier Andreas Sanchez and John Paul Sanchez. The respondent is Optimize Inc., doing business as Optimize Wealth Management. The Supreme Court file number is 42146.
The applicants were asking the court to review an Ontario Court of Appeal decision from October 27, 2025, numbered COA-24-CV-0906 and reported as 2025 ONCA 741. They didn't get the chance. Leave to appeal is the first hurdle at the Supreme Court - you have to persuade the judges the case matters enough to be heard at all. Most applications don't make it past that step, and this one didn't either. The SCC's judgment is a single line. No reasons.
What does that mean in practice? The Ontario Court of Appeal's October 2025 ruling is now the final word between these parties. The applicants are out of road. The "with costs" piece adds another bill: they'll have to pay Optimize's costs of the leave application on top of whatever was already owed below.
For wealth firms watching from the sidelines, the headline is the result rather than the reasoning. The Supreme Court document doesn't lay out the facts of the dispute, the claims that were argued, or the issues at the Court of Appeal. It also doesn't name the lawyers acting on either side. To understand what was actually being fought over - and what the appellate court decided - readers will need to pull the 2025 ONCA 741 ruling itself. That decision is the one that now governs.
A couple of things are worth flagging for advisors and compliance teams. Both parties operate in the Canadian wealth space, which is enough on its own for industry readers to take note of who came out on top. And leave dismissals like this one tend to do quiet but real work in the law - the ruling below becomes settled, even though the country's highest court never writes a word explaining why.
The case is now closed at the Supreme Court of Canada. There is no further appeal from a dismissal of leave.
