Corporate
Commercial and Business Law
Our corporate and commercial practice engages our
lawyers in a wide variety of financial and commercial
matters including acquisitions, dispositions, mergers,
arrangements, loan transactions, debt restructuring,
financing. contractual arrangements, reorganizations
and bankruptcies. We advise on incorporation (as well
as the implementation of fundamental changes, such
as continuances and amalgamations) and the organization
of other business entities, such as partnerships and
joint ventures. We assist management in the creation
and adoption of appropriate corporate governance principals
as well as on board composition and board management.
Our lawyers are regularly called upon to advise management
and boards of directors on a wide range of legal issues,
to structure and negotiate transactions and to prepare
the required documentation to implement the advice
given. This advice may include obtaining necessary
regulatory approvals (whether at the provincial or
federal level), taxation strategies for structuring
transactions and dealing with all of the related issues
that typically arise in commercial transactions, such
as intellectual property, real estate, employment
and computer technology matters.
We have experience in the preparation of all types
of commercial agreements including shareholder, partnership
and joint venture agreements. Members of our corporate
and commercial practice have particular expertise
in financing, secured transactions, franchising, and
bankruptcy and insolvency matters, natural resource
law and utilities law.
Our
lawyers advise over a thousand business entities and
enterprises of all sizes. We represent clients who
are engaged in a broad diversity of businesses including
manufacturing, telecommunications. health care, technology,
banking, real estate, distribution and retailing.
We offer full-service capabilities, from planning
to implementing an array of business and financial
transactions. Our lawyers are actively involved in
matters that include Banking/Financial Services, Bankruptcy,
Computer Law, Copyrights/Trademarks, Corporate Law,
Employment Law, Environmental Law, Financing, Franchising,
Government Regulation, Health Care Insurance, Intellectual
Property, Labour, Mergers and Acquisitions, Partnerships,
Pension/Benefit Programs, and Trade Secrets.
