Corporate/Commercial

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In corporate/commercial transactions, businesses need lawyers with specific legal expertise and strong business skills. At Wilson Vukelich LLP, our entrepreneurial lawyers are experienced in helping clients start, grow and sell their businesses.

The Wilson Vukelich LLP Corporate Commercial Group is recognized for its efficiency and effectiveness in structuring, negotiating, and closing both complex and routine transactions. No matter how big or how small the transaction, you can be sure that our lawyers will be dedicated to helping you achieve your business goals.

As a full service business law firm, our lawyers provide a wide and diverse range of general advisory, business and not-for-profit law services across many industries and at all stages of the business life cycle, including:

  • Business Formation (including incorporation and organization of federal and provincial corporations or establishing partnerships or joint-venture vehicles)
  • Extra-Provincial Registrations
  • Comprehensive or Special Purpose Shareholder Agreements
  • Establishment of New Legal Relationships with Key Customers and Suppliers (including contract preparation and/or review)
  • Corporate Governance
  • Strategic Alliances/Joint Ventures
  • Corporate and Tax Reorganizations
  • Succession Planning including Management Buyout Transactions
  • ESOPs and Other Employee Incentive Programs
  • Day-To-Day Advisory
  • Negotiations and Strategic Advisory Support
  • General and Industry-Specific Legislative Compliance (including Consumer Protection Issues)
  • Product Manufacturing, Sales and Leasing
  • Product Distribution and Licensing
  • U.S. & International Expansion
Sub-practice areas include:
  • Private Equity/M&A Transactions Services
  • Shareholder Dispute Services



Corporate Financing

Whether you are a first-time entrepreneur or the CEO of a well-established business, eventually your company may need to raise capital by issuing equity to new investors. Our corporate lawyers can help guide you through the process and advise you in relation to all aspects of corporate finance, including:

  • negotiation of Letters of Intent
  • valuation issues
  • drafting and negotiating all material agreements
  • corporate governance issues
  • securities law compliance
  • post financing legal advice for covenant compliance

Trade-Marks

Trade-marks are consistently becoming more valued as a business asset, and more attention is being paid to the protection of trade-marks as business assets.

 

We offer services to businesses starting from the "idea" stage, through the trade-mark application process, as well as in the arenas of trade-mark prosecution and the ongoing protection of registered trade-marks in Canada.

 

Our trade-mark services include:

  • trade-mark availability and registrability research
  • assistance in the selection of trade-marks
  • drafting and processing applications for registration in Canada, including trade-mark opposition proceedings
  • registration and renewal of trade-marks
  • maintenance and protection of registered trade-marks in Canada
  • drafting and negotiation of a variety of agreements related to trade-marks, including trade-mark licences and assignments
  • advising on transaction matters, including due diligence and assignment issues
  • protecting and challenging domain names and business names, and conducting and defending actions in both federal and provincial courts relating to infringement and validity of registered trade-marks and passing-off

Mergers and Acquisitions

We act for domestic and foreign buyers and sellers of businesses, both small and large, in transactions simple and complex.  We can assist you in all aspects and all stages of any share or asset deal - from negotiating the letter of intent to delivering the final closing document.  We provide a full range of mergers and acquisitions law services for our clients including:

  • advising on the overall transaction structure
  • assisting your accountants to maximize your after-tax proceeds
  • drafting and negotiating all material agreements
  • providing overall deal/project management
  • orchestrating an efficient closing
  • post-acquisition legal advice for business operations


Together with our reputable tax lawyers, our corporate lawyers can assist you in all matters of corporate restructuring and reorganization.


Shareholder Disputes

Shareholder disputes are an unfortunate fact of life, and when they arise you need a careful and reasoned strategy to navigate through the minefield of emotions and misunderstandings which threaten to cripple your company. Our corporate and litigation lawyers can help you resolve these disputes with timely and effective advice in regard to your rights under shareholders agreements, directors' obligations, fiduciary duties, the enforceability of non-competition agreements, the use of buy-sell agreements, and the protection of seniority interests. If litigation becomes unavoidable, our litigators have extensive experience seeking judgments, declarations, and injunctions from the Commercial Court to protect and enforce your personal and corporate legal rights.


Health Care Business Advisory

With the proliferation of health care legislation and regulation and the ever changing government policies related to health care, those in the health care sector need expert legal advice to understand their obligations, restrictions, and avoid costly mistakes.  We routinely assist doctors, pharmacists, dentists and other health care providers with regard to their complex and interrelated operational and regulatory concerns.

 

In advising both public and private health care sector clients, we can provide advice relevant to corporate governance and operations, including the following matters: 

  • policy development
  • regulatory compliance
  • directors' and officers' duties and liabilities
  • physician privileges
  • government relations
  • advocacy
  • regulatory compliance
  • real estate and construction
  • labour relations and employment
  • financing
  • fundraising
  • charities and foundations
  • taxation
  • technology
  • intellectual property
  • corporate and commercial law

 

Our lawyers also provide advice to both public and private health care sector clients in regard to privacy matters, including:

  • development and/or review of your organization’s information practices, including privacy, confidentiality and security policies and procedures
  • conducting Privacy Audits and developing Privacy Questionnaires and Privacy Risk Analysis tools and techniques to identify gaps, issues and potential problems
  • drafting privacy policies and all required notices, consent forms, confidentiality pledges, web statements and brochures
  • assistance with regulatory compliance with federal and provincial privacy legislation, guidelines and codes
  • development and/or review of contractual arrangements
  • development and/or review of information-sharing agreements
  • offering on-site and in-house educational and training seminars for senior management, board of directors or staff