Our Business Law Practice maintains the highest standards of expertise, resulting in exemplary business legal advice and service on a wide range of corporate, commercial, and regulatory matters.
With a deep understanding of our clients’ business needs and challenges, we help them resolve their most complex legal issues. These include structuring local and global mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate finance and securities regulation, banking, corporate reorganizations and restructurings.
Drawing on our extensive knowledge and experience, we meet the day-to-day legal requirements of our clients with enthusiasm and creativity. We deliver not only world-class counsel and service, but world-class peace of mind.
We also assist our clients with a variety of general corporate and commercial matters, and regularly advise shareholders, directors and officers on corporate law and regulatory issues.
Our clients are domestic and international businesses in all sectors, ranging from owner-operated companies to multinational corporations. We also represent banks and other commercial lenders and advise foreign businesses on establishing operations in Canada.
- Banking and Finance,
- Business Structuring and Succession Planning,
- Commercial Agreements,
- Commercial Leasing,
- Corporate Finance,
- Corporate Governance,
- Corporate Reorganizations,
- Cross Border Transactions,
- Equipment Leasing,
- Family Business Succession,
- Health Law,
- Intellectual Property,
- Joint Ventures,
- Licensing and Technology Transfers,
- Mergers and Acquisitions,
- Not-for-Profit and Charity Law,
- Partnership Agreements,
- Secured and Unsecured Transactions,
- Securities,
- Shareholders Agreements,
- Trademarks
- Be Ready for Climate Disclosure Standards; CSSB Publishes Sustainability Standards for Comment
- Not Just a Cyber Attack: Evolving Issues for Director and Officer Liability in the US and Canada
- Balancing Act: Corporate Neutrality in Shareholder Disputes Explored in Yen v Ghahramani
- What Happens in the Special Committee, Stays There: Ontario Court Upholds Confidentiality of Special Committee Reports Amid Shareholder Litigation
- Canadian Securities Administrators Provide Guidance on Virtual Shareholder Meetings
- BC Securities Commission Decision Emphasizes Free Flow of Information among Shareholders
- Recent Decision Spotlights Privilege Issues in M&A Transactions
- Marking Trademarks in Canada – Use of ® and ™ Symbols
- Ontario Capital Markets Tribunal Clarifies Tipping in the “Necessary Course of Business”
- Recent Case Affirms Competitive Bid Price as an Indicator of Fair Market Value
- Emojinal Damage: South West Terminal Ltd. v Achter Land, 2023 SKKB 116 (South West Terminal)
- Choosing a Strong Trademark – Spectrum of Distinctiveness
- The Importance of the Casting Vote at Directors Meetings
- Ontario’s New Record-Keeping Requirements for Private Corporations Now in Effect
- ASC Settles with CEO on Insider Trading and Tipping Violations Despite No Market Damage, Trading or Ill-Intent
- Court Issues Guidance about What Constitutes a “Material Change” under the Securities Act
- New Diversity Disclosure Requirements Could Be Coming Soon
- Why Canadian Officers and Boards Should Follow a U.S. Decision on an Officer’s “Duty of Oversight”
- Another Pallett Valo Lawyer Certified as a Specialist by the Law Society of Ontario
- Where Your Disclosures Might Be Going Wrong: Looking at the CSA’s Continuous Disclosure Review Heading Into Earnings and AGM Season
- The Personal Liability of Directors When Stripping Corporate Assets to Thwart Creditors
- TSX Provides Guidance on Voting Agreements
- Wong vs. Pretium – Reliability Is Relevant to Materiality
- CSA Ready to Add New Disclosure Requirements for Issuers Using the OM Prospectus Exemption
- When Are Boards Required to Hold a Requisitioned Shareholders Meeting?
- Key Considerations When Selling Your Business
- Landlords and the Duty of Good Faith
- Recent Court of Appeal Decisions Re Tort of Intrusion Upon Seclusion
- Advantages of Trademark Registration for Your Client’s Business
- The Globe and Mail Names Pallett Valo One of Canada’s Best Law Firms
- Relief From Forfeiture of a Commercial Lease: How Much Is Too Much?
- Ontario’s Prohibition on Non-compete Agreements
- Administrative Dissolutions for Failure to File Annual Reports Is Returning
- Medicine Professional Corporations
- So You Want to Sublease Premises – Understanding Your Risks
- New Anti-money Laundering Measures Enacted by LSO
- Always Read Before You Sign: When a Contract Is Clear, Courts Will Not Look Past the Written Words
- Ontario’s Not-for-Profit Legislation is Finally Coming into Force
- Commercial Leases in the Age of COVID-19: Tenant Once Again Ordered to Pay Rent Even if the Landlord Was Not Pulling Its Weight
- Canadian Corporate Law Updates for Trusts and Estates Practitioners
- Briggs & Stratton Acquires Equity in Accelerated Systems, Inc.
- Is a Text Message a Valid “Signature” Under the Law? A Recent Decision Says Yes
- The Defence of non est factum – When It Will (and Won’t) Succeed
- Ontario Superior Court Applies New Non-Enforcement Provisions in the Commercial Tenancies Act
- Recent SCC Decision on Pre-Incorporation Contracts Could Affect Ontario Not-for-Profits
- Ontario Superior Court Refuses to Break up a Major Deal as a Result of the Disruption Caused by COVID-19
- Canada’s Highest Courts Deliver a Series of Landmark Decisions on Contract Law
- Introducing Personal Real Estate Corporations
- Ontario Government Enacts Legislation to Protect Commercial Tenants Amid Shutdowns
- Estate Planning for Business Owners
- Running a Business? You Should Have an Estate Plan: Part III – Corporations
- Running a Business? You Should Have an Estate Plan: Part II – Partnership
- Running a Business? You Should Have an Estate Plan: Part I – Sole Proprietorship
- ‘A NEW LEASE ON LIFE’ for Ontario Lessors of Personal Property
- New Record-keeping Requirements for Private Corporations under the Canada Business Corporations Act
- Privacy Primer: 5 Things Businesses Need to Do Now to Comply with PIPEDA