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Commercial Law

Head of Department: Gilles Legris

The Commercial Law Department deals with the broad range of legal issues that affect all businesses. Lawyers in this department have developed the expert knowledge they need to give our clients, whether they manage a personal business or a national or international corporation, the benefit of specialist advice when they undertake to incorporate, acquire or sell a business in Québec or abroad. We also provide high-quality legal services in public and private financing, management of tax issues and corporate affairs, and in the drafting and closing of contracts which reflect all manner of business transactions.

Our clients can also benefit from the professional services of experienced litigation, arbitration and business mediation lawyers.


Areas of expertise:

Advising, analyzing and drafting contracts in connection with the acquisition or sale of businesses through outright purchase or sale of shares or assets;

Advising, analyzing and conducting due diligence on legal issues associated with the acquisition or sale of a company;

Advising, analyzing, negotiating and preparing all manner of commercial contracts;

Incorporation as a company, corporation, Canadian business corporation or cooperative;

Stock subscription agreements, stock option plans;

Shareholder agreements;

Business start-up;

Establishment of legal domicile;

Development of corporate business structures;

Personal or corporate taxation;

Public financing, venture capital financing, corporate financing, private or public QBIC (Québec Business Investment Company), listing on the stock exchange;

Mergers;

Management of tax issues associated with company operations;

Commercial disputes;

Tax disputes, negotiations with tax authorities;

Voluntary winding-up, winding-up by decision of the court and dissolutions;

Civil and commercial mediation;

Drafting and negotiating distribution or manufacturer's agent contracts;

Drafting and negotiating joint venture agreements;

Corporate and tax reorganization: estate freezing (business succession), crystallization (realization of capital gains);

Corporate reorganization for tax purposes or as a result of business acquisitions or sales;

Directors' and officers' liability (civil, tax and penal);

Resolution of conflicts between shareholders;

Corporate secretarial services, maintenance of corporate books;

Goods and services taxes (GST/QST)