Corporate and Commercial
Harold Epp leads our corporate services group and provides a full range of legal services to small and medium sized businesses. As your trusted business advisor, we help clarify your business needs and objectives, and define the most technically efficient process for delivering you what you need.
We advise on a wide variety of topics including incorporations, partnerships, trusts, joint ventures, purchases, sales, mergers, financing, company restorations, reorganization or dissolution of companies, shareholders agreements and disputes, succession planning and secured loan transactions.
Buying and Selling a Business
Contract drafting, review and interpretation of corporate agreements:
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Partnership Agreements
- Assets Sales
- Confidentiality Agreements
- Letters of Intent,
- Purchase / Sale Agreement Preparation and Completion
As part of our services, we facilitate initial discussions and planning, risk management, negotiations and preparing necessary legal documentation.
Incorporation
We provide counsel on for business startups and transitions:
- Incorporation
- Registration
- Routine Corporate Records Maintenance
- Annual General Meetings
Corporate Records
To keep in good standing, BC companies are required to maintain certain mandatory records and make annual registry filings. We provide corporate records books maintenance, and helping clients comply with annual filing obligations pursuant to the Business Corporations Act or other governing statutes and regulations.
Shareholder Agreements
Legal advice and counsel, document drafting, review and interpretation shareholders agreements including:
- Definition of Shareholder Rights and Remedies
- Applicable Legislation and Common Law Principles
- Corporate Proceedings, Duties and Liabilities
- Litigation, Mediation, Arbitration of Shareholder Disputes
- Litigation of Commercial Disputes.
We deliver with accuracy and clarity. Our promise to all of our clients is to provide clear business solutions that are relevant and easy to understand. If you have a question on matters of corporate or commercial law, please contact Bruna Lazzano, assistant to Harold Epp, to schedule a meeting.
