PROGRESSIVE LEGAL COUNSEL

Business & Corporate LAWYERS

If you’re a business owner, an entrepreneur or you have an inspiring idea for a start-up, you’re going to want a knowledgeable and experienced lawyer to advise you, guide you and keep you up to date on legal strategies and practices.

Hummingbird Lawyers LLP proudly and expertly offers a complete range of corporate legal services to not only compliment your greater strategic objectives, but our team’s real-world entrepreneurial experience allows us to take a 360 degree view of your legal exposure to protect your business.

With offices in Toronto and Vaughan, we serve businesses throughout the GTA and anywhere in Ontario. If you’re a business start-up or operating already, we can support you.

Contact us today and let our full-service legal team help you so that you can get back to what you love; running your business.

Our services include the following:

Incorporation – Business Formation & Structure

Our business lawyers will help you choose the best business structure for the organization and its divisions, while paying close attention and consideration to legal issues such as personal liability, tax, and financial matters and efficiency.

Owner Agreements/Contracts

Whether carrying on business as a partnership or a corporation, any business that has more than one owner should consider a partnership agreement or shareholders agreement to mitigate possible issues including:

• Management and voting rights
• Financing requirements
• Transfer of ownership interests

Contract reviews

Hummingbird Lawyers LLP would be happy to review any contract before you sign to ensure that you clearly understand the terms and conditions as well as to ensure that your rights and obligations are fairly and properly communicated.

Franchise Agreements

At Hummingbird Lawyers LLP, we are not only skilled at drafting and reviewing franchise agreements, but our experience and expertise in this area can help safeguard you from potential litigation down the road.

Tax planning / tax advantaged rollovers / reorganizations

Let our team of experts advise you on how to minimize the amount you have to pay in taxes. Whether we’re strategizing to allow you to defer all or part of your income or providing you with techniques to acquire or dispose of assets without generating tax income, we’re here to help you get the most for your hard earned money.

Purchase And Sale Of A Business

The purchase or sale of a business is one of the most significant and important transactions with which to proceed.

Our business lawyers will provide you with critical legal advice from the very outset, and assist you with:

• Due diligence in evaluating potential deals
• Providing necessary legal opinions
• Negotiating offers and letters of intent
• Structuring the transaction, whether dealing with assets or shares
• Preparing all documents necessary to close the deal

Outsourced Counsel

In cases needing more ongoing attention, Hummingbird Lawyers LLP offers its clients Outsourced Counsel, which ensures that we’re on hand to provide a dedicated legal presence on your senior management team.

Estate freezes

Our team at Hummingbird Lawyers LLP have extensive experience in estate freezes which essentially allow you to lock in the current property value and attribute future growth of value to another person. This and other estate planning techniques can be financially beneficial. Let us show you how.

Personal real estate corporations (PREC)

Trust us to effectively set up and manage your Personal Real Estate Corporation so that you can maximize its benefits. Our team of skilled professionals has much experience in this area and many strategies to offer.

Contact our Business and Corporate team today to learn more about how we can help support your corporate needs.

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Phone Number

905-731-1911

Visit Us

Toronto Office
80 Bloor St. West, Suite 1401, Toronto, ON M5S 2V1

Vaughan Office
8800 Dufferin Street, Suite 301, Vaughan, Ontario, L4K 0C5