Business Law
Our commercial law practice extends from the basic legal services you would expect all the way through advice and coordination of complex transactions.
This starts with things that nearly all businesses require -- corporate registrations, company planning, commercial financing, purchase and sales of businesses and tax law (including income tax, GST and PST). Derrek Fahl has extensive experience with business succession planning as well as public and private financing arrangements. Mark Dolan, Kelly Gould, and Jamie Nykolaishen, are also well-versed in these transactions.
We have notable strengths in new and emerging areas. For example, Mark, Jamie and Craig Zawada provide intellectual property advice in many disciplines, including ag-biotech, computer law, licensing, trade marks, and trade secret law.
Lawyers in This Area
Representative Experience
- Counsel to major hotel ownership and hospitality management company, handling purchases of properties in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario. Services include preparation and negotiation of management agreements for other properties in role as resort/hotel managers
- Counsel for purchasers in a multi-million dollar management buy-out of an international manufacturing business, including financing from banks and venture capital funds
- Represented vendors in sale of $34 million manufacturing company with operations and sales throughout North America
- Represent public companies in administrative matters, including organization of annual general meetings and continuous disclosure requirements
- Purchases and sales of commercial property, including shopping centres, greenfield projects, office towers and farmland
- Lender's counsel for business financing projects in multiple sectors, including manufacturing, agriculture, real estate holdings and resource companies
- Purchaser’s counsel on a $19 million multi-property acquisition from a vendor in CCAA proceedings
- Have acted for both purchasers and vendors of oil and gas properties and companies on transactions ranging from $1 million to $14 million.