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We contribute to the success of our clients’ ventures and to solving their difficulties by proposing efficient and properly adapted solutions, namely in the following areas of practice.

 
     
 
  • BUSINESS, COMMERCIAL
    CORPORATE AND
    FINANCIAL LAW
  • MERGERS AND
    ACQUISITIONS

  • INTELLECTUAL
    PROPERTY

  • COMMERCIAL, CIVIL AND
    FISCAL LITIGATION, CLASS
    ACTIONS AND ARBITRATION
  • LABOUR AND
    EMPLOYMENT

  • INTERNATIONAL


 

Our reputation was built on our firm’s mastering of business and commercial law. The prevailing emphasis on business and commercial law permits us to offer integrated services and expertise needed by any business.

  • Constitution and organization of corporations, partnerships and other entities;
  • Corporate reorganizations;
  • Corporate and financial planning;
  • Estate planning;
  • Securities;
  • Financing;
  • Banking;
  • Security interests;
  • Real estate law;
  • Leases;
  • Contractual negotiation and drafting;
  • Franchises and licences;
 
  • Competition law;
  • Bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring;
  • Arrangements with creditors;
  • Foreclosures and seizures;
  • Construction law;
  • Municipal law;
  • Insurance law;
  • Communications, media and entertainment law;
  • Sports law;
  • Defamation and freedom of speech.
 

Business mergers and acquisitions is the area of practice on which our firm was founded.

  • Negotiation and drafting of purchase, sale and financing agreements;
  • Advice and representation related to successor employer liabilities and labour relations;
  • Due diligence;
  • Title search;
  • Planning and advice.
 

In a more than ever complex competitive environment, intellectual property has become a significant asset of any business. We have risen to the challenge and act to protect and defend our clients’ intellectual property.

  • Copyrights;
  • Trademarks;
  • Licensing.
 

Our team represent our clients in all types of litigations before all courts, civil and administrative, provincial and federal.

  • Corporate and Shareholder litigations;
  • Contractual litigations;
  • Insurance;
  • Civil liability;
  • Banking;
  • Bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring;
  • Foreclosures and seizures;
  • Environmental law;
  • Competition law;
  • Construction  and real estate law;
  • Tax law;
  • Securities law;
  • Injunctions;
  • Class actions;
  • Arbitration;
  • Alternative dispute resolution.
 

Our clients are corporations, businesses and institutions but they are also employers. Human capital constitutes, for our clients, one of their most important components. To assist our clients, we offer consultation and representation services in labour relations, employment and occupational health and safety.

  • Arbitration of grievances;
  • Individual and collective terminations;
  • Disciplinary measures ;
  • Injonctions;
  • Collective bargaining;
  • Labour standards;
  • Occupational health and safety;
  • Work place accidents and occupational diseases.
 

The confidence entrusted unto us by our clients has given us the opportunity to represent them and to protect their interests in Canada and in foreign jurisdictions.

  • Organisation of foreign corporations and other business entities;
  • Manufacturing and distribution agreements;
  • Franchises;
  • Letters of credit and documentary credit;
  • International purchase and sale of goods;
  • International service contracts;
  • Arbitration.
 

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