If you are thinking about starting a business or already have one, then most likely you will have or need to form a corporation.

While most businesses will organize themselves using a corporation, there are of course other vehicles including partnerships, limited liability partnerships, and joint ventures which are suitable for particular opportunities.

One size does not fit all and, as a nimble boutique, we provide very personal service.

Tell us where you want to go, your expectations, the milestones to achieve, and we’ll generate options for consideration to increase the likelihood that you can get there, balancing strategic insight gained from over 25 years of expertise with astute corporate advice and a structure that will suit the objective.

And as lawyers for start-ups, it isn’t all about hard-edge legal advice. We have seen what successful start-ups need to do and can provide trusted support and guidance when required.

Companies past the start-up phase and either maturing or looking at a reboot have different requirements we are experienced with, be it formalizing existing contractual relationships, improving governance, getting buy-in from key stakeholders to a new strategy, negotiating important agreements with lenders, suppliers, or customers, or otherwise getting support to address certain needs resulting from a proposed scale-up.

We represent start-ups, small and medium size owner-operated businesses, entrepreneurial ventures, technology companies, and professionals. That said, our expertise has also been specifically sought by 100-year-old companies, huge enterprises with business activities spanning the globe, and other lawyers looking for specific expertise to assist their clients on complex transactions.

As a corporate law firm, we offer comprehensive services in all facets of corporate law. We have worked with large institutional clients on unique corporate requirements and nimble start-ups looking for their initial investors, advising on share capital structures, financings, shareholder agreements, intellectual property rights strategies, securing investments, and effective, practical governance.

We also provide services involving tax-driven rollovers, venture capital investment transactions, amalgamations, reorganizations, share capital alterations, dissolutions, restorations, and corporate governance matters.

Consideration is given to appropriate share capital structures in consultation with our client’s tax advisors, including the special share requirements often desirable for closely-held companies, and as required by professional corporations whose principals are members of regulatory bodies such as the Law Society of British Columbia or the College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia.