Shareholder Disputes
The Role of Estate Planning in Protecting Family Businesses
Family businesses are the backbone of many economies, providing financial stability and long-term wealth for generations. However, without proper estate planning, these businesses can face significant...
Business Succession Planning Checklist
As an entrepreneur, you are immensely proud of your business. In fact, you probably spend a lot of time planning how you will help your business...
Self Sabotage: When You Incorporate Without A Lawyer
So you looked up a few websites on incorporating, stumbled upon the government sites for filing articles of incorporation and decided to fill in the forms...
Canadian Government to Provide “Window” into Decision-Making After Blocking BHP’s Potash Bid
The Canadian Government is set to establish rules with respect to foreign investment within the month after it blocked BHP Billiton of Australia's $39 billion hostile...
Magna Intl. Inc. Shareholders Lose Appeal: Proposed Arrangement Satisfied “Fair and Reasonable” Test
The appeal by shareholders, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and others, from Magna International’s successful application for an order approving a proposed arrangement pursuant to s....
THE SHAREHOLDERS AGREEMENT: The most important agreement of your Company!
First and foremost a contract, a shareholders agreement has all the ingredients thereof, for it to be binding and legal. There is an offer and acceptance,...
Forgetting to Defend a Law Suit, Setting Aside the Default Judgment
I love this saying…“you can’t change the past but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future”. It applies to so many of us....
