At Ferguson Patterson, we offer clients a broad business and corporate practice geared to both new and established businesses. Jim, in particular, provides regular guidance to clients on all aspects of their strategic planning as well as their daily business operations. Working with our clients’ other professional advisors and their management, we strive to understand our clients’ businesses and to be an integral part of their businesses, providing valuable practical advice tempered by experience and extensive legal knowledge.
Our areas of business law services include:
Business Structures
- Incorporation and organization of
- business corporations
- not-for profit and charitable corporations
- professional corporations
- Start-ups of Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships
- Establishment of joint ventures, limited partnerships and limited liability partnerships
Business Reorganizations and Restructuring
- Amalgamations and mergers
- Winding –up, dissolutions and revival
- Continuances in other jurisdictions
Agreements between Business Owners
- Shareholders agreements.
- Partnership agreements.
- Joint Venture agreements.
Purchases and Sales of Businesses
- Planning and structuring of purchase and sale transactions as purchases of shares or assets
- Preparing and negotiating letters of intent, offers and purchase and sale agreements and other
- Performing due diligence
- Completing the transactions
Commercial Leasing
- Office, industrial and retail leases
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Franchising and Licensing
- Franchise agreements, disclosure statements and compliance with applicable franchising laws
- License Agreements
- Sales Agency Agreements
- Dealership and Distributorship Agreements
Financing Transactions
- Mortgages on commercial real estate
- Personal Property Security Act secured transactions
- Equipment leasing
- "Angel" seed capital and venture capital loans and investments
- Shareholder and other private lending arrangements
Other Corporate and Commercial Contracts
- Non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements
- Employment agreements
- Consulting and independent contractor agreements
- Non-competition and non-solicitation agreements
- Purchase Orders, quotations and other business agreements
- Royalty and technology transfer agreements
General corporate counsel work
- Corporate governance
- Advice to directors and officers
- Proactive advice regarding legislative and legal changes
- Asset protection and risk reduction advice
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