Every business reaches moments where the next step is legal. You are incorporating, signing a lease, hiring your first employees, buying a competitor, franchising what works, or launching a platform that strangers will trust with their data.
Each of those moments has real risks attached, and most of the risks are avoidable if the paperwork matches how your business actually runs. We practice in three areas, and everything we do fits inside them. Find your situation below and start where you are.
Deals, contracts, and the agreements your business runs on. We act on both sides of the deals, and we draft the documents that keep the relationships enforceable.
Buying or Selling a Business
Buy a Business
Our deepest practice area. Deal strategy, due diligence, and closing for buyers of Ontario businesses, from first-time purchasers to strategic acquirers.
Sell a Business
The seller's side of the same table, covering planned exits, distressed sales, and the post-closing obligations that decide how much of the price you keep.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Share and asset transactions at the company-to-company level, and the diligence that finds hidden liabilities first.
Running & Growing the Business
Commercial Contracts
The agreements your business runs on, meaning services agreements, supply and distribution, loans, and master service agreements.
NDA & Confidentiality Agreements
Protecting what you share before any deal exists to protect you.
Non-Compete Agreements
The covenants that survived Ontario's ban, drafted with liquidated damages so they actually deter.
Employees & Contractors
Employment agreements, contractor agreements, and the policies that keep both enforceable.
Raising Capital & Financing
Subscription agreements, convertible notes, and the securities-law exemptions that let private companies raise money legally.
Lease Agreements
Commercial lease review and negotiation, including the assignment and renewal terms that decide whether the business can be sold later.
The corporation itself. Structure, governance, and ownership, from formation to the agreements between owners.
The Corporation Itself
Company Formation & Incorporation
Incorporate properly the first time, with a share structure that will not need surgery later.
Extra-Provincial Registration
Registering a corporation formed outside Ontario to carry on business here, with the tax strategy handled before the filing.
Corporate Reorganizations
Section 85 rollovers, estate freezes, and holding company structures, executed to match your accountant's plan.
Corporate Maintenance & Minute Books
The annual resolutions, filings, and records that keep your corporation compliant and sale-ready.
Amalgamations
Merging corporations into one continuing entity, short-form or long-form.
Owners & Partners
Shareholders Agreements
The document that decides what happens when owners disagree, retire, divorce, or die. Write it while everyone still likes each other.
Shareholder Disputes
When the disagreement has already arrived, resolved through negotiated buyouts, mediated settlements, and structured exits.
Partnerships & Joint Ventures
Going into business together without incorporating. Contributions, control, profit splits, and exit, settled before the venture earns anything.
Franchising has its own statute in Ontario, its own disclosure regime, and its own ways of going wrong. We act for franchisors building systems and for franchisees deciding whether to sign one.
Start Here
Franchise Law Hub
Find your side of the table and the page that matches your situation.
Guide to Franchising
The decision itself, before the legal build begins.
For Franchisees
Franchise Agreement & FDD Review
The review before you sign, inside your 14-day disclosure window.
Franchise Resales
Buying or selling an existing franchise location, with both transactions handled as one deal.
For Franchisors & Multi-Unit Operators
Franchise Your Business
The disclosure document, the franchise agreement, and the system build that turns one working business into a repeatable one.
Master Franchise Agreements
Bringing a concept into Canada, or taking on a territory's worth of franchises.
Area Developer & Area Representative Agreements
Multi-unit commitments and territory recruiting deals, and the schedule clauses that decide both.
Software businesses sell promises at scale, and the promises live in the documents. We work with SaaS platforms, e-commerce businesses, and software developers across Ontario.
Your Product's Legal Stack
Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
The layered documents that protect a SaaS or digital product, built around how your platform actually works.
Software Licensing & SaaS Agreements
The terms your product actually operates under.
E-Commerce
Selling to consumers online, with the consumer-protection rules that come with it.
Services, Development & Deals
Software Development Agreements
Who owns the code, what happens when milestones slip, and how either side exits.
IT & MSP Agreements
Managed services agreements for MSPs and IT firms, from payment structure to the indemnity and insurance clauses that decide liability.
Private Equity & Investments
Technology transactions on the investor side.
Most matters touch more than one area. A business purchase can involve a franchise agreement, a lease, employment contracts, and a holding company all at once, and part of our job is seeing the whole board. Book a free discovery call and we will tell you clearly what your situation needs and what it does not.
Schedule a Complimentary Discovery Callor call 416-580-0345
Business and technology law is our expertise – from starting your first company to financing your growth to national expansion, our lawyers got all the bases covered!
Proactivity is the name of the game! We take care of all your business and legal needs for a flat monthly fee. We’ll review all your contracts, provide you with strategic legal advice, and protect you against pesky legal problems. Why wait until after a problem arises?
Fill in the blanks and put it away! Our Quick Start Contracts are designed to be plug and play. Need to quickly set up that corporation? How about a shareholders agreement for that new investor? The possibilities are endless.
