Corporate law
Set up your business on the right footing
Incorporations, agreements between owners, and independent legal advice, prepared properly from the start, and help closing a corporation when it is no longer needed.
Corporate services
Whether you are starting a business, bringing in a partner, or winding things down, we prepare the documents and filings so your corporation is properly organized.
Ontario incorporations
Setting up a corporation under Ontario's Business Corporations Act, including the articles, share structure, initial resolutions and minute book.
Federal incorporations
Incorporating under the Canada Business Corporations Act, often chosen by businesses that plan to operate in more than one province.
Professional corporations
For regulated professionals, such as physicians, dentists and lawyers, who are permitted to practise through a corporation.
Shareholder agreements
Rules between the owners of a corporation on decision-making, selling shares, buyouts, and what happens if an owner leaves, becomes disabled or dies.
Independent legal advice
Before you sign a shareholder agreement, personal guarantee or other business document, a lawyer reviews it with you, separately from the other parties, and explains your rights and obligations.
Partnership agreements
For businesses run as partnerships: how profits are shared, how decisions are made, and how a partner can leave.
Dissolving a corporation
Formally winding up a corporation that is no longer needed, including the required resolutions and filings.
Before you incorporate
It helps to have the following ready for our first meeting:
- Your proposed corporate name, or whether a numbered company will do
- The names and addresses of the directors and shareholders
- How ownership will be divided between the shareholders
- The address of the registered office
Talk to your accountant too
Tax affects the structure
How a corporation is set up, including its share classes and who holds them, has tax consequences. We recommend speaking with your accountant before incorporating, and we are happy to work with them.
Next step
Starting or restructuring a business?
Call or send a short consultation request. We will check for conflicts and get back to you to arrange a time.