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corporate and commercial

Our Corporate Group provides practical advice to a wide range of businesses. We assist clients in setting up a corporate structure that will enable them to implement their business objectives securely and with minimum liability. We draft agreements to ensure that our clients' relationships with key parties, such as suppliers, distributors, customers and licensees are clear and enforceable. We also ensure that our clients' important business assets, such as intellectual property, are protected through appropriate agreements with employees, contractors and licensees. In addition to our strong transactional mergers & acquisitions practice, we focus on supporting our clients with prompt, practical and accessible advice concerning the day-to-day matters which affect their business.  Our Corporate Group delivers comprehensive and fully integrated business law services including ongoing corporate and commercial advice to a wide variety of clients. 

Our expertise includes:

  • Mergers, acquisitions & divestitures
  • Securities and public markets transactions
  • Business formation & reorganization
  • Corporate finance
  • Corporate governance
  • Dealer and franchise agreements
  • Distribution agreements
  • Joint ventures and strategic alliances
  • Licensing and technology transfers
  • Outsourcing
  • Private equity (fund formation investments and distributions)
  • Public private partnerships / infrastructure projects



Publications / Presentations
March 2012
ring the bells
client alert
March 2012
Canada to remove foreign ownership restrictions on certain telecommunications providers
telecommunications bulletin
January 2012
director elections and shareholder democracy
securities bulletin
November 2011
why wait – part I? should your Ontario charitable corporation think about continuing under the new federal act now?
corporate bulletin
October 2011
anti-spam draft regulations provide guidance
privacy bulletin
October 13, 2011
new Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act proclaimed in force. what do we do now?
corporate bulletin
October 13, 2011
Frequently Asked Questions on International Transactions – A Regulatory View
The following is the first part of a two-part paper presented at the "International Practice Boot Camp - Nuts and Bolts of Commercial Transactions", a program at the American Bar Association, Section of International Law Fall Meeting in Dublin, Ireland on October 14, 2011.
September 2011
CSA propose to streamline and tailor venture issuer disclosure
securities bulletin
July 2011
pending legislative changes affecting Ontario Special Act Non-Share Capital Corporations
Corporate Bulletin
June 2011
preparing for Canada's New Not-For-Profit Corporations Act
Corporate Bulletin
May 2011
all things being unequal: Quebec's renewed focus on pay equity
Corporate Bulletin
February 2011
applying insurance principles to derivatives
corporate bulletin
February 2011
the new Quebec Business Corporations Act: a new regime offering
corporate bulletin


Tom Theodorakis
604.691.7492
Frank A. Archibald
416.865.7187
Kimberly J. Poster
416.865.7890
Patrick J. Phelan
416.307.4068
Elisabeth S. Preston
613.232.7171 Ext. 196