We offer to quality advice with a practical, cost conscious approach to the following areas of business law:

• Purchases and Sales of Businesses
• Setting up of Corporations, Partnerships and Joint Ventures
• Corporate Reorganizations
• Financing Transactions
• Confidentiality and Competition Agreements
• Employment Matters
• Other Business Agreements
• Commercial Leasing

Purchases and Sales of Businesses

Whether you are buying or selling a business, we can assist you in negotiating and completing the transaction in a timely manner with close view of minimizing your risk. We can also assist you with all the related matters such as setting up a corporation, negotiating a lease or concluding financing.

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Setting up of Corporations, Partnerships and Joint Ventures

Depending on your goals and particular requirements, we can assist you incorporating your business, or setting up some other arrangement such as a partnership or a joint venture. We will give you advice regarding the various methods for organizing a business and assist you in deciding which one is most suitable in your specific circumstances.

We can also assist you in negotiating, drafting and interpreting Shareholder Agreements and Partnership Agreements.

We provide services updating and organizing Minute Books and preparing annual resolutions.

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Corporate Reorganizations

We can assist you in negotiating and documenting all manner of corporate reorganizations such as:

• departing shareholders;
• issuing new classes of shares;
• changing corporate names;
• mergers with another corporation;
• updates of minutes books and annual resolutions.

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Financing Transactions

We represent the lenders and borrowers in various secured and unsecured transactions. We can assist you in regard to negotiating and concluding the following:

• loan agreements;
• liens under the Personal Property and Security Act;
• Collateral security arrangements such as:
  • General Security Agreements
  • Mortgages
  • Share Pledges
  • Escrow Agreements
  • Subordination and Priority Agreements

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Confidentiality and Competition Agreements

We can assist you in drafting and implementing the following types of agreements:

• non-competition agreements
• non-solicitation agreements
• confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements

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Employment Matters

We can assist you in drafting employment and independent contractor agreements, as well as related non-competition and confidentiality documentation;

We can also provide advice in regard to termination of employees and the obligations of both the employees and the employers pursuant to common law and various employment related statutes.

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Other Business Agreements

We can provide advice in interpreting existing agreements as well as drafting variety of commons business agreements such as:

• Supply Agreements;
• Distribution Agreements;
• Services Agreements.

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Commercial Leasing

We can assist you in negotiating, drafting and enforcing commercial leases. For more detail list of our services in this area, please refer to the real estate section of this website.

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For all business law related matters please contact Adam Altmid.