Legal services we provide
From an incorporation to operating contracts, a reorganization or a business sale, we can help you.
Starting and structuring a business
The legal foundation for a new business, professional practice or holding company.
- Ontario incorporations
- Professional corporations (doctors, dentists and other regulated professionals)
- Federal incorporations
- Holding companies
- Extra-provincial registrations (operating in another province)
- Business name registrations
- Corporate organization, including director and shareholder resolutions, share issuances and minute books
- Partnership, limited partnership and joint venture agreements
Corporate reorganizations and tax-driven transactions
Corporate reorganizations for changes to your business structure, assets and ownership.
- Share and asset rollovers
- Share exchanges
- Estate freezes
- Trusts
- Amalgamations
- Share transfers and redemptions
- Continuances into new jurisdictions
- Amending articles to change corporate name, share structures and other provisions
- Corporate wind-ups and dissolutions
- Corporate revivals
Buying, selling and investing in businesses
We keep the bigger picture in view, manage the process and focus on getting the deal completed while protecting your interests.
- Purchase and sale of businesses, including share and asset deals
- Letters of intent and term sheets
- Legal due diligence
- Purchase agreements and transaction closing documents
- Vendor take-back financing and promissory notes
- Share subscription and investment agreements
Agreements and contracts
We help you understand the agreement, the key risks and the issues that may need to be negotiated.
- Shareholders' agreements
- Employment agreements
- Independent contractor agreements
- Consulting and management services agreements
- Employee stock option plans
- Distribution and supply agreements
- Commercial leases
- Franchise agreements
- Loan agreements
- General security agreements and other security documents
- Guarantees
- Non-competition and non-solicitation agreements
- Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
- Settlement agreements and releases
- Other contract drafting and review
Corporate records and ongoing compliance
Keep your corporate records current and deal with the changes that arise as your business evolves.
- Director and shareholder resolutions
- Dividend resolutions
- Annual resolutions and annual returns
- Minute book updates and full minute book recreations
- Director and officer appointments, resignations and changes
- Registered office and address changes
- Corporate name changes
- Certificates of status and certified corporate records
Understand the legal issues. Make better business decisions.
We are corporate and commercial lawyers, and entrepreneurs ourselves. We bring that business perspective to the advice we give, with a focus on the decisions you need to make.
Tell us what you are working on.
Whether it is your business or a client matter, get in touch and we will help you work out whether we are the right fit.
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