Our staff have over 30 years of experience in corporate-commercial law, including:

• Starting, buying, selling or reorganizing a business
• Starting a business a sole proprietorship, a partnership or a corporation
• Asset and share purchases and sales
  Reorganizing
• Estate freezes: allocating future grown in the value of the corporation’s assets (and the associated tax liability) to specific shareholders
• Amalgamations: merging of corporations

Drafting and reviewing contracts, such as:

• Incorporation, partnership, amalgamation and shareholder agreements
• Asset or share purchase agreements
• Mortgage agreements
• Security agreements

Corporate record keeping, including:

• Minutes of shareholders’ and directors’ meetings
• Directors’ and shareholders’ resolutions
• Incorporation documents

Employment-related issues:

• Employment contracts
• Compliance with employment regulation
• Compliance with Employment Standards Act
• Human Rights legislation
• Termination of employment

Compliance with government regulations, such as:

• Canada Business Corporations Act
• Ontario Business Corporations Act
• Not for Profit Corporations Act
• Securities regulation
• Zoning by-laws
• Tax laws

Our staff have over 30 years of experience in:

• Buying or selling a home, cottage or a condominium
• Buying or selling commercial property

We help buyers with:

• Drafting and reviewing an Agreement of Purchase and Sale
• Title search and letters of requisition – to ensure that you will get a good marketable title to the property
• Financing the transaction
• Title insurance

We help sellers with:

• Drafting and reviewing an Agreement of Purchase and Sale
• Answering buyers’ requisitions
• Preparing the closing documents
• Discharging a mortgage
• Paying off outstanding taxes

We can also help with:

• Refinancing
• Severance applications: to sell, lease or mortgage part of your property
• Applications for an Absolute Title: converting a Land Titles Qualified parcel to Land Titles Absolute.
  • This application is required if you wish to develop the land by registering a plan of subdivision or condominium
  • This application is also required if you wish to consolidate a Land Titles Qualified parcel with a Land Titles Absolute one or to deal with claims of adverse possession
• Joint tenancy issues:
  • Transferring a property you own into joint names
  • Severing a joint tenancy
  • Survivorship applications: transferring the property into your name when your joint tenant dies

Our experience includes:

• Adult, youth and bail matters
• Trial experience in the Ontario Court of Justice, the Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal for Ontario
• Provincial offences (such as Highway Traffic Act violations and trespass charges)
• Drug charges
• Assault and threat charges of various severity, including domestic assault
• Property charges (such as theft, break&enter, mischief and fraud)
• Firearms charges