Business Law
General Business Law
Type of Work
Our Business Law team offers a complete array of legal advice and services to clients ranging from small entrepreneurial firms to large private and public companies with local and international interests. We work with our clients to structure, negotiate and implement numerous types of business transactions.
Further, our Business Law team has experience representing many types of stakeholders including buyers, sellers, borrowers, shareholders, boards of directors, committees of directors, partnerships, partners, trusts, beneficiaries and trustees.
Through assisting in the initial stages of business transactions, we are equipped to cultivate a deeper understanding of your objectives and vision. The Business Law team is dedicated to assisting you in achieving your objectives by offering valuable responses and innovative solutions in a timely manner.
This is a sampling of the types of general business law transactions and issues with which we have experience:
Transactions
- Acquisitions and dispositions (including share, asset and hybrid transactions)
- Business structuring (corporations, partnerships, trusts, etc)
- Shareholder agreements, joint ventures and other strategic alliances
- Public financings, private equity investments, venture capital and angel financings
- Project financing (traditional bank financing, syndicated credit facilities and other forms of secured financing)
- Corporate recapitalizations, receiverships, bankruptcy, CCAA and turnarounds
- Supply, licensing and distribution agreements
- Other commercial agreements
- Public/private partnerships
- Employment and consulting agreements
- Equity compensation plans
- Lossco transactions
Related Services
- Tax effective structuring
- Deal negotiation
- Due diligence
- Employment matters
- Litigation matters
- Real estate matters
- Intellectual property matters
- Information technology matters
- Environmental matters
- Corporate governance
Compliance
- Income Tax Act
- Competition Act
- Investment Canada Act
- Foreign ownership of real property laws
- Securities laws
- Stock exchange rules
- Corporate laws
- Employment laws
- International trade issues