Canada Business Transaction Lawyer
For international commercial enterprises requiring Canadian legal services call 403-400-4092 or email Chris@NeufeldLegal.com
Undertaking commercial transactions with a Canadian business entity requires the engagement of Canadian legal counsel that can collaborate with your primary legal counsel to advance the particular business deal, such that you might negotiate the best possible deal or, alternatively, have the legal insight to discontinue negotiations and proceed in an alternate direction. For when it comes to representing international businesses seeking to acquire Canadian commercial enterprises, we are entirely prepared to provide critical legal analysis of a proposed commercial transaction, identifying serious financial and legal considerations that are particular to the controlling law, where it has the potential of killing the entire deal, which it has done on numerous occasions, as that was ultimately determined to be in the best interest of the international business client.
Also, as a boutique legal practice, we are not constrained by the impediments that deter larger law firms from providing complete and unfiltered legal advice and direction to their international clients, as these larger law firms cannot be critical of their own legal work that they have been proliferating for years to their domestic Canadian corporate clients. Instead, they would apparently prefer to be ignorant as to highly consequential legal and financial aspects as to how Canadian corporate business is undertaken, and the legal liability that it exposes their Canadian corporate clients (and the law firms themselves) to, should they pursue a contravening legal position from what they have been selling to their long-term Canadian corporate clients for years, if not decades. Thus, their preference would appear to be ignorance of the many critical legal aspects and perpetuating that ignorance with their international business clients, as the international business' domestic lawyers are not apprised of the specific nuances of Canadian law, and moreover that of the different provinces that create significant complexity for international business deals into Canada.
Meanwhile, the reliance upon massive amounts of legal documentation to facilitate the transaction, all too often serves as a distraction from the core legal issues that need to be addressed. However, generating hundreds of pages of generic legal paperwork is not all that the legal work should entail, instead it demands critical legal analysis, which isn't afraid to challenge common commercial practices that cannot be substantiated by the law, because the objective of the lawyer is to only serve its international business client, and no one else. And in truth, this would appear to have been largely lost amongst the larger law firms, who are so heavily entrenched with their domestic Canadian corporate clients, that it has become exceedingly difficult to effectively represent the interests of an international business client pursuing a commercial transaction in Canada.
This, in turn, has enabled our law firm to carve out a very distinct legal practice in representing international business in their corporate transactional matters with Canada, from the purchase and sale of equipment and assets, to the acquisition of entire Canadian businesses, as well as providing legal advice and direction to many Canadian businesses in their commercial transactions overseas. Yet, when it comes to international businesses seeking to transact business in Canada, that is where full transparency and focus must be on advancing the interests of the international corporate client, with a critical eye to providing unfiltered legal advice, and even criticism, of the intended transaction and its legal configuration.
As such, when your international business seeks the professional services of an experienced Canadian business lawyer, contact our law firm for a confidential initial consultation at 403-400-4092 or Chris@NeufeldLegal.com.