Business Law

We offer a full business law service and would be pleased to assist you with all of your business law needs.

In supporting our clients fully, we assist you in achieving your goals and objectives. We take that extra step to make sure we get to know you personally, to understand your business and the nature of your legal needs. We listen to what you are looking for and work hard to find advice or solutions tailor-made for your needs.

At Mann & Partners, Llp, we give practical "real world" advice and offer value-added solutions to empower you in making efficient and cost-effective choices and decisions.

Our clients range in size from one-person service businesses to large well-established commercial operations in most industry sectors. Our clients appreciate the professional, efficient, timely and innovative approach we take in providing our legal services. We offer a broad range of legal services to meet your business law needs:

Business Formation and Management

• Advice on business plans and business structures including taxation matters
• Creation of corporations, both for profit and not-for-profit
• Creation of Partnerships, both limited and general
• By-law and minute book review and preparation
• Name searches and registrations
• Advice on personal asset protection
• Organization and management of businesses, including partnership agreements, shareholders agreements, voting trusts, joint venture agreements and consortium agreements
• Corporate continuances and dissolutions

Business Acquisitions, Sales and Mergers

• Share purchases and share sales and the preparation of requisite and agreements and the negotiation of such transactions
• Asset purchase and asset sales and the preparation of requisite and agreements and the negotiation of these transactions
• Corporate mergers and reorganizations
• Franchise acquisitions and sales
• Non-disclosure agreements
• Non-solicitation and non-competition agreements
• Corporate opinions

Succession Planning

• Business restructuring
• Management buyouts
• Estate freezes
• Trusts
• Estate Planning

Special Issues Affecting Family Businesses

• Shareholder Issues
• "Sharing the Pie"
• Succession Planning
• Mediation of Family Disputes

 Regulatory Matters, Registrations and Searches

• Provincial and Federal registrations
• Extra-provincial registrations
• Privacy law compliance audits and privacy plans
• Advising on taxation issues
• Ppsa registrations
• Bulk Sales compliance
• Bank Act and Bankruptcy searches

Franchise Law and Licensing

• Preparation of Franchisor Disclosure documentation
• Preparation of Franchise Agreements, review and advising on such agreements
• Advising on legislative compliance
• Intellectual Property licensing

Commercial Leasing

• Negotiating and preparation of Offers to Lease
• Negotiating and preparation of commercial leases, including: retail, office, building, land and farm leases
• Subleases, assignments and termination agreements
• Licensing
• Landlord enforcement
• Tenant protection

Please see our other commercial real estate services.

Employment

• Preparation of employment agreements
• Profit sharing plans
• Employee share option plans

Please see our other employment law services.

Business Governance

• Advising Officers, Board of Directors and Partners on governance issues including conflict of interest, liability issues and risk management
• Preparation of resolutions and minutes of meetings
• Preparation of notices of meetings, proxies and information circulars

General Commercial and Contract

• Commercial contract drafting and review
• Distribution agreements
• Supplier agreements
• Contractor and subcontractor agreements
• Personal property leasing agreements
• Conditional sale agreements

Information Technology

• Software and hardware licensing
• Teaming agreements
• Contracting Out agreements
• Channel Partner agreements
• Beta agreements
• Product and Service agreements
• Support plans and agreements
• Oem agreements
• Reseller agreements
• Webpage development agreements
• RFP reviews

Financing

• Preparation of loan documentation including loan agreements, general security agreements and promissory notes
• Bank due diligence reviews and opinions
• Subscription plans and agreements
• Debentures
• Pledge agreements
• Negotiating and assisting with secured financing
• Real property financing

Financial Risk Management

• Collections
• Restructuring and creditor proofing
• Negotiations with creditors and debtors
• Proposals and Bankruptcy and Insolvency matters

For more information about our business law services and for any advice in relation to your specific situation or circumstance please contact us today.

Stephen Guest | Ted Mann | André Martin | Jason Peyman