Corporate and Commercial Transactions
Our Corporate team works closely with clients to help them establish their businesses correctly, right from the start, so they achieve their long-term business goals. This attention to detail is also critically important as clients manage and expand their business, allowing them to explore new opportunities and navigate challenges.
Our extensive experience includes such specific corporate services as:
- Business Formations such as limited liability companies, unlimited liability companies, professional bodies, partnerships, joint ventures, not-for profit entities.
- Corporate Governance, including advising boards, committees and management to discharge their director and officer obligations and corporate compliance and maintenance services.
- Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures.
- Purchase and Sale of business.
- Reorganizations such as amalgamations and winding up.
- Preparation and negotiation of shareholder agreements, non-competition agreements, escrow agreements and earn-outs, including the tax implications of these transactions.
- Facilitating orderly succession planning of family enterprises, including appropriate use of trusts.
We also help companies minimize operational and regulatory risks and provide them with on-going advice that meet their regulatory requirements. We help clients navigate the terrain of regulatory requirements and best practice codes relevant to corporate governance and corporate responsibility.