Fundamentals
Empowering
We seek to empower our clients when dealing with legal matters. This means ensuring that all of our communications with you are drafted in simple, clear and plain English. We want you to understand our services so that you can develop a deeper understanding of the legal matter at hand. By knowing how these issues impact your business, you can forsee and manage them better.
Innovative & Practical
Our approach to legal services is to give you practical advice. Because the law cannot exist in isolation, our assessments and advice incorporate your business realities. This focus on practical solutions also extends to innovation and technology in our own systems to help us work fast and efficiently.
Communication Focused
Good communication is an important part of building a strong relationship, so we are available to talk when you need us. We want to ensure that our advice is accessible. Our complete contact details are provided to you later in this document.
Collaborative
A team-based approach leads to better, more efficient outcomes. Our clients are an integral part of the team, and we work with you rather than for you. Because of this, we educate the client about the steps we need to take, as well as the reasoning behind them.
Inspired & Passionate
We enjoy our work and the part we play in the lives of people and businesses who trust us. Because we enjoy serving you, we want you to enjoy working with us. We try to resolve issues in a collaborative way, rather than with conflict as a first resort. This usually leads to cost saving, better solutions and lasting outcomes for all parties.
The Team
We are committed to helping you meet your business and legal needs.
Areas of Practice
Corporate Structuring & Reorganization
By sophisticated we do not mean expensive or overly complicated. Your corporate structure can be sophisticated enough to allow for tax planning, asset protection and proper exit strategies, but can be streamlined and elegant at the same time.
International Business & Trade
More businesses are looking into expanding their presence around the globe.
You don’t have to have a large corporation to take your business into new markets. There are international expansion opportunities for many small and mid-sized companies looking to grow. It can take many forms such as setting up a subsidiary inbound or outbound to or from Canada, joint ventures, distributions or straight export. Expanding to new jurisdictions opens your business to a broader client base and increased business growth.
Business Contracts
Most business relationships you will encounter can be written into an agreement.
Our approach is that if the relationship or your interest is important enough to protect, you will most likely need a contract for it. Our service for contracts includes drafting as well as reviewing.
CanExport
The Canadian government’s CanExport program provides support to small and mid-sized companies who are looking beyond our borders to grow their businesses.
Our team can help your business with its financing needs, whether through conventional bank financing, private lending or raising public investment.
Buying & Selling a Business
The purchase or sale of a business can be done in a number of ways, and each method has different factors to consider.
Generally, it can be structured as buying or selling the shares of the operating company, or the assets of the business. A hybrid of share and asset sale is also possible. Each of these methods have different tax and liability considerations.
Employment Law
Successful businesses often rely on developing positive relationships with their employees by establishing clear expectations.
As a business expands and takes on more employees it can be difficult to maintain the delicate balance of meeting those obligations while simultaneously running a successful business.
Banking & Securities Law
There are different ways to get commercial financing, and each has its own legal rules. Conventional financing is the most common, and banks and financing institutions each have their own set of contracts and security requirements.
Tax & Estate Planning
Estate and succession planning for the business owner is closely linked with corporate succession.
Proper estate planning has many benefits, such as tax savings and certainty among beneficiaries. A common problem is that people in our aging demographic do their succession planning too late, and miss out on many of the tax saving opportunities, for example the savings that a discretionary family trust may bring.
Resources
Ready to start exporting your goods and services? You’ll want to read this first
Considering that nearly 70% of Canada’s GDP consists of import and export revenue it’s no surprise that more and more Canadian companies are looking to expand internationally. Entering foreign markets can create opportunities for diversification, reduced vulnerability, higher profits, more sales, access to global demand and innovation.
Protecting the employee and the employer during workplace investigations.
Employers have a duty to investigate all allegations of harassment and discrimination involving their employees and workplace. Conducting investigations can be tricky. In addition to finding a way to conduct them without infringing on the rights of the employee under investigation it is also your responsibility to ensure the employee is not treated with unfair prejudice as investigation flaws may result in substantial liability against you; the employer.
Everything you need to know about termination pay and reasonable notice
It’s never easy to terminate an employee but it is inevitably something most employers will be faced with at some point in time. To protect the business from litigation or financial damages it’s important for every employer to understand employee rights such as reasonable notice during the termination process.
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