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Organization and planning of the legal aspects of your business

You intend to incorporate? You think of integrating new partners to your business? You think of reviewing your corporate structure? You need to do an update of the minute book of your business corporation? You are interested in the constitution of a trust? You must register a trademark? You want to sell, purchase or merge a business?

You are a professional? Several professional orders allow from now on the constitution into a legal person for the exercise of activities of their members. Your notary can help you in this process as well as in those to be completed with your professional order. It is important to know the various requirements imposed by the regulations of each professional order.

In all these cases, you can use the services of your notary. The steps relative to the incorporation, drafting of a shareholder agreement, establishment of a trust as well as the purchase or sale of a business present peculiarities which require the assistance of a specialist of corporate law.

Your notary will help you in the process of incorporation of your business and, thereafter, will accompany you, for example, for the financing, movable and immovable, the protection of your trademarks or that of your rights in a commercial lease.

Your notary can take charge of updating your books for a business corporation and a trust. He will draft the documentation related to the current activities of your business such as declarations of dividend, of bonuses, the issue or the redemption of shares.

Within the framework of a reorganization of your corporate structure, it can be interesting to set up a trust. Several advantages can result from it, for example, to assure the survival of a family business, in particular by delaying the designation of successors, protect the capital of the trust from economic risks (bankruptcy), risks of legal action, family disputes (divorce, separation) or allow certain tax benefits (income splitting). Your notary, in collaboration with your tax expert, will be able to assure the drafting of this specialized documentation.

You are several partners within your business? The shareholder agreement aims at preventing eventual conflicts between the latter by providing mechanisms to resolve those which might occur. An advice: sign a shareholder agreement as from the time of constitution (called incorporation in the federal jurisdiction) of the business corporation, when the relations are harmonious between the partners; just like at the beginning of a marriage!

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