Corporate Services

Whether you are a manager of a provincial or federal corporation, a contractual partnership or a non-profit organization (NPO), it is reassuring to have a seasoned legal team with experience in corporate governance and compliance.

Our Corporate Services lawyers and paralegals support you in your day-to-day business and when handling all your corporate proceedings by offering you the following services:

• Convening and holding annual general and other meetings
• Creating contractual partnerships such as general partnerships (GPs), limited partnerships (LPs) and limited liability partnerships (LLPs)
• Creating groups of persons such as cost-sharing partnerships
• Creating joint ventures
• Creating NPOs, including applying to become a registered charity where applicable
• Creating trusts
• Drafting and negotiating shareholder agreements
• Drafting any contract or amendment relating to contractual partnerships
• Drafting documentation required for corporate changes, including those related to an entity’s governance, head office or continuances under different legislation
• Drafting documentation required in connection with a dissolution, liquidation or winding-up
• Drafting minutes, written resolutions in lieu of an annual general meeting or a meeting or extracts of resolutions
• Incorporating and devising the organization of business corporations
• Monitoring and annual updating of entities, including maintaining the minute book and updating information reported in public registers, such as Québec’s enterprise register and Corporations Canada
• Serving as a proxyholder
• Setting up stock-based incentive compensation plans