Legal Advice & Services

Small & Medium-Sized Businesses

  • Providing outsourced or virtual general counsel services including advising employees, management, officers and directors with respect to all facets of a company’s development and operations and the growth, financing and management of an enterprise from a legal perspective;

  • Business structuring – sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited partnerships, corporations and trusts;

  • Partnership, limited partnership and shareholders’ agreements;

  • Employment agreements and advice with respect to employee disputes, terminations or other employment matters;

  • Independent contractor or consulting agreements;

  • Non-disclosure and non-solicitation agreements – one way, two way and multiple party;

  • Contract and commercial agreement negotiations, review and drafting;

  • Merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions including asset and share purchase agreements and other acquisitions and divestitures;

  • Bank lending facilities;

  • Secured and unsecured debt financing;

  • Equity (common and preferred shares) or convertible securities;

  • Private placements;

  • Stock option plans;

  • Private investment funds/vehicles including limited partnerships or corporate structures;

  • Corporate restructurings for financially distressed companies;

  • Reverse take-over (RTO) transactions; and

  • Stock exchange listings – CSE (Canadian Securities Exchange).


Individuals

  • Starting a business or making an investment in a business;

  • Buying or selling a business;

  • Personal and business structuring;

  • Sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited partnerships, new incorporations and trusts;

  • Employment matters including hiring, contract and severance negotiations and Employment Standards/Ministry of Labour negotiations;

  • Contract and commercial agreement negotiations, review and drafting;

  • Commercial real estate leasing transactions;

  • Intellectual property matters; and

  • Creditor/debtor negotiations.


Corporate Clerk Services

  • Individual and corporate background searches;

  • Corporate and business searches;

  • Government filings;

  • PPSA and UCC searches and registrations;

  • Incorporations (federally and provincially);

  • Partnership and business name registrations (across Canada);

  • Continuances;

  • Amalgamations;

  • Amendments to charter documents and other fundamental corporate changes;

  • Dissolutions;

  • Revivals;

  • Extra-Provincial registrations (across Canada);

  • Annual proceedings;

  • Variety of authorizing corporate resolutions;

  • Corporate Minute Book reviews and due diligence;

  • Rectification resolutions;

  • Assistance on secured financings;

  • Assistance on asset/share purchase transactions and corporate reorganizations;

  • Assistance on private placements; and

  • Assistance on tax-driven transactions.

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