Our Practice
Personal Business & Corporate Law
Next to the purchase of your home, setting up, buying or buying into, or selling, a business is a huge step for most people who want to control and make their way in the business world.
There are tremendous rewards in owning or participating in a business, and the joys of all the success that come from your hard work are certainly worth it. There are also just as many traps, and you can be confident that Anderson Bourdon Burgess can be with you to help avoid those traps.
Dealing directly with a lawyer on the transaction, we work with you, and your chartered accountant, and advisors, to ensure you are on solid footing from beginning to the closing of the transaction.
Some of our most successful clients take advantage of calling our offices before entering into an agreement, to get advice as to how to best structure the transaction. It is better to go into it prepared than to try to back out or renegotiate after the fact: that can be an expensive lesson.
We provide services in the following areas:
- Sole Proprietorships
- Partnerships and Partnership Agreements
- Incorporations
- Shareholders Agreements
- Business Restructuring, Amalgamation
- Mergers and Acquisitions, Both Share and Asset Transactions
- Finance, Leasing and Contracts
- Independent Legal Advice and Independent Legal Representation
Please feel free to contact our offices to discuss your transaction.
You Should Be Talking to Us
For most, the purchase, and even subsequent purchase and sale, of your home is one of the biggest transactions that you will ever undertake.
We understand the stresses you face, and our depth of experience enables us to help you navigate the process, and you have every reason to entrust Anderson Bourdon Burgess with your transaction.
Dealing directly with a lawyer on the transaction, we work with you, and your real estate agent if you have one, to ensure you are on solid footing from the listing of the property to the closing of the transaction.
We provide services in the following areas:
- Residential Purchase and Sale
- Commercial Purchase and Sale
- Industrial Purchase and Sale
- Institutional and Private Mortgage Finance & Refinance
- Development Syndications
We also provide Independent Legal Advice and Independent Legal Representation on the above to those who need representation or a second opinion.
Please feel free to contact our offices to discuss your transaction.
You Should Be Talking to Us
We offer our clients customized, comprehensive personal tax planning encompassing a broad range of objective and strategies.
We act for clients in Canada and many other jurisdictions to develop and implement comprehensive estate planning strategies that address the tax and non-tax aspects of intergenerational wealth transfer and business succession.
Working directly with a lawyer on the transaction, and your C.A., and other advisors, we focus on private domestic and international planning with sensitivity to clients’ unique circumstances and family concerns.
You Should Be Talking to Us
We regularly draft simple wills for our clients, however, we also draft sophisticated wills, multi jurisdictional wills, inter vivos trusts and prenuptial agreements and marriage contracts taking into account the unique circumstances and objectives of each client.
We also draft powers of attorney for property and personal care and other instruments relating to incapacity planning.
Further, with our tax, trusts and estates and corporate law expertise, we provide advice to individuals and families on the tax and non-tax aspects of trusts, private companies, business incorporations, reorganizations and investments.
You Should Be Talking to Us
We are experienced in all aspects of the formation and reorganization of private partnerships, companies and trusts. Drawing on our tax and corporate law expertise, and working directly with a lawyer and your advisors, we advise on tax-effective private partnerships and private company reorganizations and shareholders’ agreements that address both the transfer of economic benefit and corporate control among family members.
Whether the transfer is intra family, intra corporate or a transfer to an outside purchaser, and whether a share or asset transfer, working with your chartered accountant and advisors, we will be able to guide you through the transaction.
You Should Be Talking to Us
We offer our clients customized, comprehensive personal tax planning encompassing a broad range of objectives and strategies.
We act for clients in Canada and many other jurisdictions to develop and implement comprehensive estate planning strategies that address the tax and non-tax aspects of intergenerational wealth transfer and business succession.
Working directly with a lawyer on the transaction, and your C.A., and other advisors, we focus on private domestic and international planning with sensitivity to clients’ unique circumstances and family concerns.
