CORPORATE-COMMERCIAL
No in-house legal department or Corporate Secretary? Allow us.
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Offering outsourced General Counsel/CLO and Corporate Secretary/CCO services is our speciality. At any stage of a business’ lifecycle, tailored legal advice from commercially-minded lawyers is integral to meet corporate goals and support effective senior managers, boards and owners.
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Though we advise on litigation, we prefer to lessen the burden on courts and resolve disputes through ADR. If trials are unavoidable, or complex family law, estate planning, or real estate transactions are tied to your business operations, we have a network of trusted counsel to assist.
Business Start-up & Incorporations
Sole Proprietorships
Partnerships
​General Partnerships (GP), Limited Partnerships (LP) & Limited Liability Partnerships (LLP)
Partnership Agreement drafting
Corporations
Articles of Incorporation
Corporate By-Laws & Resolutions
Share subscriptions, share certificates & shareholder agreements
Registers & Ledgers
Filing of Initial Returns & Annual Returns
Acquiring CRA Business & GST Numbers
Business trade name registration
Advice on handling pre-incorporation contracts
Contract drafting across all functional business areas
General Counsel Services
Corporate Secretary & Municipal Clerk services & governance advising
Contract lifecycle management (drafting, negotiation, review, execution & enforcement) across most business areas
Board, Council, Committee and Shareholder/Member meeting managment
Commercial transactions:
M&A (asset & share purchases), sale & supply of goods & legal opinions
Commercial leases
Director & officer (D&O) duties & liability advising
Not-for-Profit corporation & charity advising (ONCA compliance)
Employment law:
hiring & terminating employees & management
employment agreements (drafting, negotiation & review)
independent & dependent contractor agreements
consulting agreements
non-competition/solicitation/disclosure/disparagement agreements
workplace/business policy & handbook drafting
workplace investigations & reports
collection of unpaid wages
stock options & sweat equity agreements
General advising on: winding-up & dissolutions, bankruptcy & insolvency, & offshore trusts & corporations