Business Law
LEGAL INSIGHT, BUSINESS INSTINCTS
Corporate and Commercial
- Business initiation and arrangements, including incorporations, amalgamations, amendments, and dissolutions, professional corporation (for Doctors, Dentists and Agents), limited partnerships and bare trusts
- Shareholder, partnership and trust agreements
- General business law and operational issues
- Business operations and related services and agreements
- Shareholder subscriptions and escrow agreements
- Bank, insurance, loan and trust regulation
- Privacy regulations
- Contracts of all types, including, sales and distribution agreements, vendor and supplier contracts, license agreements, technology supply and service contracts, and any other form of commercial contract you may require
- Corporate restructurings - establishing domestic and international franchises, licensing arrangements, distributorships, and joint ventures, if you can think of the arrangement, we can prepare it.
- Corporate governance and regulatory compliance
- Tax structuring
We have a large network of experts and outside professionals with whom we work closely with to provide our clients with a complete team of expertise. This includes, but are not limited to, Real Estate Agents, Tax Experts, Indirect Tax Experts, Accountants and Bankers.
M&A and Re-Organizations
- Share and asset purchase and sale transactions
- Structuring and negotiation of business transactions, including corporate acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations
- Pre-acquisition due diligence and advance planning
- Tax-driven re-organizations, including freezes, rollovers, capital gains steps, trusts and succession planning
Our business lawyers have provided legal advice on many high value, complex and unique transactions and commercial contracts, including:
- Acting for the vendor on the sale of a large commercially focused insurance brokerage, which included several preliminary transactions, amalgamations, and secured lending transactions
- Acting for a large insurance company in their acquisition of interests within several insurance brokers within Ontario
- Acting for one of the largest quick serve franchisees in Canada through their sale to a national franchise conglomerate
- Acting for a Canadian-US and Indian software company on several significant transactions with a number of publicly traded and international clients
- Developed a unique and extensive Contractual liability Insurance Policy program for the automotive industry
- Developed Warranty Programs in Canada for a major US financial institution.
- Acting for the managing partner of a large Bay Street firm in the re-organization of his personal portfolio
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