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Practice Areas

• Commercial Law: Negotiation and dispute resolution strategy and implementation. Commercial contracts, licensing, regulatory compliance, dispute management and negotiation. Purchase and sale of business operations, assets and rights. Non-competition covenants. Commercial tenancies. Consulting, product development and service agreements. Reporting, record keeping and compliance for carrying on business in Ontario and Canada.

• Corporate: Business entity due diligence investigation and purchase, organization, reorganization and governance. Management and resolution of shareholder disputes. Shareholder agreements, co-tenancies and other joint venture agreements.

• Computer Law: Computer system acquisition agreements. Licensing, support, development and other commercial agreements for computer software, hardware or services.

• Industrial property: Registration, protection and commercial use of trade-marks, copyrights, trade secrets and related rights. Assignment and licensing of patents. Protection of computer software and rights. Infringement claims. Author-publisher contracts and claims.

• Financing: Loan agreements, venture capital financing, business asset security and registration, priority and postponement agreements, guarantee and indemnity agreements.

• Taxation: Corporate reorganizations and implementation of tax driven structures or agreements. Commodity taxation. Anti-Dumping.

• Competition Law: Misleading advertising and other advertising regulation. Marketing law, pricing regulation and offences in the distribution or promotion of goods and services.

• Bankruptcy and Insolvency: Receivership and receiver duties. Assignments and proposals in bankruptcy. Director liability claims. Preferences and priorities.

• Employment: Confidentiality and assignment of invention agreements, employee profit sharing and stock option plans, employment and service agreements, termination of employment.