We also work with our clients' other professional advisors to plan for and implement expansions, wind-ups, re-organizations and amalgamations and to put in place succession plans to facilitate a smooth transition of the business to the next generation.

Our Corporate and Commercial Services include:

• Company incorporations and continuations (provincial, federal and extra-provincial)

• Company restorations, amalgamations, reorganizations and wind-ups

• Shareholder and partnership agreements

• Preparing and attending to annual corporate filings and minutes and record book maintenance

• Corporate transactions including dividends (cash and stock), share transfers, and changes to directors

• Business agreements and contracts including supply and distribution agreements, license agreements, confidentiality agreements, sales contracts, conditional sales agreements, executive contracts and franchise agreements

• Reviewing, negotiating and preparing commercial leases

• Security agreements (general and specific), guarantees, collateral security agreements and personal property registry searches and filings

• Buying and selling businesses (shares and assets)

• Corporate financing arrangements (debt and equity), negotiating with commercial lenders and advising upon commercial lending and security agreements

• Business succession planning and implementation

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