Our Business Transactions Group is dedicated to meeting the legal needs and exceeding the expectations of our business clients, large and small. We are focused on combining our business experience and legal expertise in all aspects of business law and commercial transactions to serve our clients at all stages of building, growing, financing and sustaining their business. We advise many small, medium and large businesses on a wide variety of matters as described below.

We are committed to understanding our clients' needs and to providing timely and targeted legal advice to meet those needs. A number of our lawyers have practical business experience as former and present officers and directors of emerging and established private and public companies. Our services include providing legal advice on:

• Acquisitions and divestitures
• Joint ventures and partnerships
• Private debt financings
• Unanimous shareholder agreements
• Shareholder dispute resolutions
• Corporate and business structuring
• Purchase and sale of businesses
• Corporate governance - including duties and liabilities of Directors and Officers
• Privacy law
• Employment issues
• Regulatory compliance for business (e.g. Workplace Safety/ Environmental Issues)
• Consulting agreements
• Banking
• Distribution and sales agency agreements
• Tax
• Intellectual Property matters related to trade-mark and copyright
• Non-profit sector matters