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- Business Lawyers / Corporate Lawyers!
- Commercial Lawyers!
- Real Estate Lawyers!
- Wills & Estates Lawyers!
- Immigration Lawyers!
- Commercial Litigators!
- Serving Calgary, Okotoks, and surrounding areas!
We are a full service law firm, providing your everyday business and personal legal representation. Our practice areas and interests include the following:
- Business Law and Corporate Law
- Commercial Law
- Real Estate Law (both Commercial & Residential) - Alberta & BC
- Wills & Estates
- Construction Law
- Immigration Law
- Project Finance
- Employment Law
- Energy & Environmental Law
- Procurement & Supply Law
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Commercial Litigation
Business Law and Corporate Law
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Incorporation and setting up other legal entities
- Partnership agreements
- Issuance of shares
- Purchase and sale (transfer) of shares
- Advisory on prospectus exemption (share issuance and transfer)
- Split of shares
- Corporate restructuring and reorganization
- Amalgamations
- Shareholders’ and directors’ resolutions
- Unanimous shareholder agreements
- Pooling agreements
- Forced buy / sell (shotgun) agreements
- Buy-back of shares / redemption of shares
- Dividends
- Corporate filings
- Calling and holding corporate meetings / issuing relevant notices
Commercial Law
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements
- Non-compete agreements
- Purchase and sale of businesses (shares or assets)
- Purchase and sale of assets
- General security agreements and personal property security registrations
- Priority and postponement agreements
- Loan documentation
- Consulting agreements
- Registration of business names / trade names
- Equipment lease and rental agreements
- Licensing agreements
Real Estate Law (both Commercial and Residential) - Alberta & British Columbia
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Closing on commercial real estate transactions (sale and purchase)
- Closing on residential real estate transactions (sale and purchase)
- Mortgage
- Private mortgages
- Refinances
- Leases (review, negotiation, drafting and caveat registrations)
- Cash purchases of real estate
- Mortgage assumption
- Assignment of rents and leases
- Real estate sale and purchase agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
Construction Law
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Construction agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Complex project agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Framework and master service agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Engineering and consulting agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Front-end engineering and design agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreements
- Design, build, operate and transfer agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Non-disclosure and non-compete agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Request for proposals (RFP) - legal requirements and process documentation
- Filing builders’ liens
- Discharging builders’ liens
- Litigating builders’ liens
- Bonds and other security instruments
- Negotiating and resolving construction disputes
- Due diligence and risk mitigation in construction
- Managing claims (offensive and defensive)
Immigration Law
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Self employed class
- Federal skilled worker class
- Federal skilled trades class
- Investor / entrepreneur class
- Canadian experience class
- Various provincial and territorial streams
- Caregiver class
- Parents and grandparents super visa
- Family sponsorship (spouse, common law, conjugal partners, dependent children, etc)
- Refugee claim
- Humanitarian & compassionate considerations class
- Various temporary foreign worker streams
- Student class (study permit)
- Post-graduation work permit
- Visiting visa and temporary resident permit
- Citizenship
- Immigration detention issues
- Tribunal appeals (Immigration Appeal Division and Refugee Appeal Division)
- Judicial reviews (Federal Court)
- Eligible applications to overcome inadmissibility
Project Finance
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Memorandum of understanding (MOU) - (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Letter of intent (LOI) - (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Head of agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Common / direct agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Inter-lender agreements (subordination, mezzanine, priority, etc)
- Collaboration, teaming and consortium agreements
- Financing / term sheets (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Structuring and drafting of security documents
- Setting up special purpose vehicle and corporate structure
- Drafting and negotiating underlying agreements (feedstock, take-or-pay long term offtake, etc)
- Technical partnership agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Technology transfer agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Operation and maintenance agreements
- Facilities management agreements
Employment Law
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Employment agreements (review and drafting)
- Secondment agreements (review, negotiation and drafting)
- Negotiating severance & termination packages, and releases
- Wrongful dismissal litigation
- Representation before the Alberta Human Rights Commission
- Employment issues relating to board members / senior executives
Energy & Environmental Law
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Regulatory compliance and due diligence
- Advisory relating to voluntary initiatives and environmental policies
- Regulatory applications and permitting
- Applications for waivers / relaxation (before federal, provincial & municipal authorities)
- Appearances before regulators
- Insurance, risk management and allocation of liabilities
- Directors’ and officers’ liability
- Carbon trading
- Regulation of climate change and greenhouse gas
- Health and safety regulations
- Environmental impact assessment
- Project finance specific to the energy, infrastructure & extractive industries
- Development of projects relating to the energy, infrastructure & extractive industries
- Decommissioning
- Corporate social responsibility and compliance with negotiated mandates
- Environmental litigation (judicial reviews and appeals)
Procurement & Supply Law
In various capacities, we have experience in supporting and developing capital intensive industrial projects (in the range of billions of US$) around the world, across various key stages (initial setup for successful execution, front-end engineering, risk assessment & management, systems deployment & integration, project finance, staffing, mentoring, construction readiness, site construction, claims management, project finance, commissioning, and closeout).
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Advisory relating to public (and private) procurement of goods and services
- Documentation of requests for proposals and processes
- Designing procurement policies and best practices
- Development of procurement and contract templates
- Claims avoidance
- Insurance, risk management and optimal allocation of risk in procurement of goods and services
- Designing, managing & complying with security instruments (performance bonds, bank guarantees, corporate guarantees, letters of comfort, letters of credit, etc) in procurement of goods and services
- Claims management and litigation (offensive and defensive)
- Mapping contractual, legal & regulatory issues relating to mobilization and demobilization for projects
- Principled and structured negotiation of complex contracts
- Legal integration of operational & cross functional teams (engineering, quality assurance / control, health, safety & environment, in-house legal, finance, project controls, construction, procurement, project management, etc)
- Designing processes that can hold up to legal scrutiny (general terms and conditions, special conditions, well-designed scopes of work, technical documents, and ancillary documents)
- Workshops and training on procurement risk management & best practice for various stakeholders - senior management, project execution teams, cross functional teams, site teams, in-house legal department, etc
- Advising on critical activities for success across the value chain - advisory relating to legal aspects of pre-qualification, designing and negotiating non-disclosure agreements, feedback on practical procurement registers, practical back-to-back flow down of prime obligations, use and management of risk registers, legal mechanisms for successful category management, management of warranty issues, negotiation of logistics and shipping contracts, designing effective payment milestones, designing specific compensation models, effective project communication & documentation, proper closeout, checklist & documentation to reduce claims, legal issues relating to commissioning, advising as to optimal delivery terms and risk transfer (incoterms), advisory relating to cross border procurement of goods and services, assistance with early dispute resolution and avoidance, risk-focussed change management procedures, dealing with suspension and termination issues (whether for convenience or for cause), etc.
Wills & Estates
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Family trust
- Wills and codicils
- Enduring power of attorney
- Personal directives
- Estate planning
- Ap
- Estate litigation
Arbitration & Mediation
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Principle-based and advantage-driven early settlement conferences
- Mediation
- Arbitration
Commercial Litigation
We are pleased to represent you in the following non-exhaustive areas:
- Litigation in all aspects of commercial disputes