Business Law
Our Business Law Group provides a wide range of legal services designed to help businesses of all sizes survive, grow and prosper.
- If you are starting a business?
- If you own or operate a well established business?
- If you are contemplating retirement and unsure how to plan for business succession?
- Should your business be in trouble?
- Services for not-for-profit and charitable organizations?
- Services for the e-business sector?
To find out more about this highly specialized area of the law and how we may be able to help you, contact:
| Name | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
| Roy Conacher | 613.544.7030 | rconacher@cswan.com |
| Peter Trousdale | 613.546.2231 | ptrousdale@cswan.com |
| Eric Bennett | 613.546.8077 | ebennett@cswan.com |
| Andrew Bonham | 613.546.8076 | abonham@cswan.com |
| Name | Phone | |
|---|---|---|
| Shai Dubey | 613.546.8075 | sdubey@cswan.com |
If you are starting a business:
You may need advice on matters such as incorporation, partnerships, financing, shareholder agreements and liability issues.
- Is a sole proprietorship, partnership or incorporation the correct structure for your business?
- Do you know your rights as a shareholder? As a partner?
- Should you have a shareholder or partnership agreement?
- What is your personal financial liability if the business should fail?
- Which financing methods work best?
If you own or operate a well established business:
You can benefit from our knowledge of business acquisition and sale, corporate reorganization and restructuring, joint ventures, franchising, corporate financing, business and tax planning and commercial security.
- The challenges of mergers and acquisitions
- How to value a business
- Keep up with on-going changes to the tax laws
- Know how to read and interpret a franchise agreement
- Succession planning/estate freeze
Should your business be in trouble:
You may need our assistance with bankruptcy and insolvency services to help you reorganize and re-establish security.
- Restructuring of professional and personal debts
- Financial consolidation and payments
- Re-establishing creditor confidence
- Opportunities to rebuild the business
Services for not-for-profit and charitable organizations:
We also offer a wide range of comparable services for those working in this significant sector of the economy including:
- structure and govenance
- registration as a charity
Services for the e-business sector:
Critical issues confront those in the e-business and e-commerce marketplace. Our Information Technology business practice can help you address many of these including:
- Protecting intellectual property
- Avoiding software piracy
- Hosting and user agreements for Web sites
- Trade secrets and confidentiality
- Acquiring technology and/or software licenses