A good Lawyer should also be a good businessman. To us, the two are not mutually exclusive.
Your Lawyer should be a business professional and have the capability to advise businesses across the whole spectrum of business issues. We pride ourselves on bringing a business perspective to our legal analysis and services. We work together with our client’s business and their staff to better advise our clients. We get to know your business.
Our advice integrates related areas of business law, including employment, real estate and leasing, litigation, finance and taxation. Our wide knowledge of practice allows us to adapt our advice to make it practical, valuable, and useful for each client’s business environment. We keep in mind our clients’ long-term business and personal objectives, ensuring that the business is prepared for estate and succession planning services with our business services.
We are patient, perceptive, disciplined and good at negotiating.
We maintain informal and effective relationships with law firms in other provinces, the United States, and the United Kingdom to assist our clients when necessary.
Our business law services include:
- Business Agreements, including detailed contract review and drafting with appropriate risk analysis, good business judgment and sound advice
- Business Succession Planning
- Business Transactions of every kind, including business acquisitions and sales agreements, outsourcing, licensing and distribution transactions, and corporate finance and secured lending transactions
- Corporate Commercial Litigation
- Employment arrangements, including drafting of employment agreements, confidentiality arrangements and employee share ownership structures
- Franchising and distribution arrangements, including design, implementation and maintenance of national and provincial franchising structures and other distribution and supply arrangements
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Designing business organizations, including incorporations, amalgamations, restructuring and reorganizations
- Shareholders’, partnership and joint venture agreements
- Structuring and advice for risk management, asset protection and tax reduction
- Support as trusted advisors for entrepreneurs and owner-managers
- Technology licensing and supplier arrangements
For more information, contact Christian Piersanti