Expert support and advice
We provide expert support and advice to our clients through all stages of corporate growth. We oversee ongoing legal aspects and assist our clients in understanding the ever-changing business environments they operate in.
Our business practice negotiates and structures all types of commercial agreements to serve your business needs and to properly protect your interests. The agreements and arrangements that we negotiate and prepare are as varied and diverse as our client base and their industries. To ensure our clients have the utmost protection, our Team works closely with other lawyers within the firm where required, drawing on the skills and experience of lawyers in the areas of tax, competition, finance, securities, intellectual property and technology, regulatory, employment and labor, commercial real estate, and litigation.
Significant areas of practice:
- Selection and formation of limited liability companies and corporations
- Purchase or sale of business
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Operating agreements
- Manufacturing agreements
- Franchise agreements
- Licensing agreements
- Supply and distribution agreements
- Sale representative agreements
- Management and consulting agreements
- Transitional services arrangements between sellers and buyers and shared facilities and service arrangements
- Services and outsourcing agreements
- Acting as the registered office of a business
- Filing organizational documents
- Assisting in maintaining good standing with the appropriate provincial and federal authorities
Extensive Experience
Our Business practice has extensive experience in structuring and implementing a variety of business agreements intended for long-term ongoing commercial relationships. We strive to understand your business objectives to meet your goals while achieving the appropriate legal protection.
Significant areas of practice:
- Shareholders’ Agreements
- Operating Agreements
- Joint Venture Agreements
- Investment Agreements
- Strategic Alliances
Knowledgeable in all aspects
We are knowledgeable in all aspects of business law in a wide variety of industries and business sectors. We are routinely recognized for our skill and experience in handling complex mergers, acquisitions, and asset sale transactions. Our lawyers have broad experience in complex local and international transactions. Our business practice lawyers are recognized experts in preparing, negotiating, and completing complex transactional agreements and providing the critical strategic advice that goes with them.
Our Team also works closely with international law firms in cross-border and international transactions providing legal advice and support regarding the US components of the transactions.
Significant areas of practice:
- Purchases and sales from entire companies to business units
- Acquisition and investment vehicles
- New business startups
- Cross-border transactions
- Due diligence