Corporate Commercial
It’s not just your business. It’s usually your blood, sweat and tears. Your best
dreams and sometimes your worst nightmares. It is your future and the future of
those who depend upon you.
Corporate lawyering is about protecting that business - taking your vision and energy
and finding ways to help them to flourish and grow. Sometimes, when times get difficult,
it’s also about protecting your rights and helping you make the tough decisions
that are part of the real world of business. Pragmatic and cost-effective business
advice. That’s what you get from our Corporate and Commercial Group.
David Wallace chairs our Corporate and Commercial Group. Whether it is providing
counsel to a top ranked University, a multinational conglomerate, a small business
owner or an upstart entrepreneur, David Wallace knows that corporate lawyering requires
more than knowledge of corporate forms and procedures. He understands the language
of bankers, investors, suppliers and creditors. He knows the turf when it comes
to due diligence, corporate governance, privacy laws, and the ever-encroaching tentacles
of government regulation in all its forms. He understands that success requires
both local insight and global perspective.
David Wallace’s advice is laden with years of experience: there’s no fine print
in his pragmatic approach to business law. “Small business, big business and all
sizes in between, our firm has them all”, David says. “Our successes are built on
our experience right here in our own backyard.”
This is our home. We know it well, but we are not constrained by our geography.
We serve the demands of our clients wherever their business may take them. We know
we must have available at our finger tips the broad scope of expertise that is required
by our clients. And we do.
Gerald Green puts it this way: “Times are changing. The business environment is
constantly evolving. Success from yesterday is no assurance of success tomorrow.
We have to be innovative and adaptable to the needs of our clients. We have to constantly
re-examine our assumptions in the light of evolving trends, not only provincially
and nationally, but on a global basis. Our clients are doing it every day. And so
are we.”
A subsection of our Corporate/Commercial Group is our Taxation Group, led by Eric
Atkinson.
OUR SERVICES INCLUDE:
- Incorporations, Private Mergers & Corporate Restructuring
- Business Succession Planning, including tax counsel
- Share Transfers and Asset Conveyance
- Shareholders’ and Partnership Agreements
- Banking and Secured Loan Transactions
- Reorganizations, Amalgamations and Windings-up
- Insolvency & Receivership
- Commercial arbitration
- Privacy Policies