Our Services

We regularly advise clients on a wide variety of transactions including:

• Purchases and sales of businesses and business assets
• Restructurings and re-organizations
• Shareholder buyouts
• Management buy-outs
• Asset deals
• Cross-border transactions

Our Business team is actively supported in transactions by colleagues practicing in the areas of tax, real estate and employment law.

If you are contemplating a business transaction, please give a member of our Business group a call to find out how our approach to completing deals can help you reach your objectives.

Recent work highlights

• Advised Ottawa-based Vocantas Inc. and Pronexus Inc. on their acquisition by Valsoft Corporation Inc. of Montreal.
• Advised AirVM Inc. on its recent $8M Series A funding from RHO Canada, Build Ventures and Wesley Clover.
• Advised BDC Capital Corporation and Mistral Venture Partners on their investment in the $12.5M Series D financing of CENX, Inc.
• Acted for Ottawa-based Cloudlink Corporation on its sale to US based EMC Corporation.
• Acted for The Pythian Group Inc. on its acquisition of Silicon Valley based PALOMINO DB, INC.
• Acted for WESA Group Inc. in the completion of its recent reverse takeover transaction with Seprotech Systems Incorporated.
• Acted for the partners of Kanata based accountancy firm Cox Merritt & Co on the sale of their practice to KPMG.
• Advised Ottawa-based Kuatro Technologies Inc. on its recent acquisition of a Tier 1 OEM Engineering and Development Centre located in Virginia.
• Acted for the vendors and the corporation on the $65M sale of a private aviation company.
• Acted for the vendors on the $42M sale of all of the shares of a construction and paving company.
• Acted for the vendors and the corporation on the $24M sale of all of the shares of a funeral home company.
• Acted for the vendors and the corporation on the $12M sale of a technology consulting company.
• Acted for the vendors on the $5M sale of a leading Canadian energy and environmental consulting firm.
• Acted for a technology company specializing in the air traffic and public safety sector on the $30M sale of its air traffic division to an international, publicly traded conglomerate.
• Acted for the vendors on the $6M sale of an independent pharmacy to a national chain.
• Acted for the purchaser on a $3M shareholder buyout of all of the founder’s shares in a heavy construction company, including the arrangement of vendor take back financing and supporting security.
• Acted for the management group $2M management buyout of an engineering company, including vendor take back acquisition financing.
• Acted for the vendors on the $6M sale of all of the shares of a business intelligence software company.