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Business Law Group Lawyers
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Shibley Righton LLP has a longstanding reputation for its results-oriented advice to business clients. That tradition continues today, with a focussed group that is long on knowledge and legal and business experience, and is particularly strong on reacting quickly and creatively to solve client problems. The Group strives to deliver legal services on a basis that emphasizes the use of teams formed to bring together the skills required for the particular transaction and which minimize costly duplication.
Headed by William L. Northcote, the Business Law Group carries on a full-service practice, including:
- financing including everything from conventional debt, equity and asset-based lending to custom structures like limited partnerships, leasing and trusts;
- domestic and international mergers, acquisitions and divestitures;
- planning and implementation of simple and complex corporate reorganizations,
- domestic, cross-border and international distributorships, licensing, joint ventures, and other strategic relationships;
- commercial agreements including purchase and sale of goods, provision and acquisition of services, delivery and transportation, research, etc.;
- corporate governance and management including building and advising boards of directors, directors and officers liability and insurance, meetings and other statutory compliance;
- formation of domestic and international corporations, partnerships and trusts;
- securities law, particularly relating to junior public companies;
- shareholders' and partnership agreements, relationships, and disputes including creative settlement approaches, divisive reorganizations, and corporate divorce;
- franchising agreements, planning, and disputes;
- entertainment law including recording artist agreements, producer agreements, management agreements, publishing agreements and the development and marketing of entertainment;
- intellectual property law including trade-mark and copyright applications, trade-mark oppositions and intellectual property licensing;
- not-for-profit and charitable corporations;
While the group is more known for its work with small and medium-sized enterprises, and especially its expertise relating to private and junior public companies, it also acts for larger and multinational companies and governmental agencies. In addition, it regularly acts as local counsel for non-Canadian law firms whose clients are carrying out transactions in Canada or need Canadian legal advice.
The firm's Business Law Group is tightly integrated with, and draws collaborative support from, the firm's Taxation and Tax Planning Group, the Technology Group, and the Real Estate Group.
For some representative clients of the Business Law Group, see the following links:
Intercedent
e-Quisitions
Plumtraders
Ontario Food Terminal Board
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