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Piché & Company advises clients on all corporate and commercial law aspects of business. See below for a partial list of the types of services we can provide and issues we can advise on, and contact us with your inquiries.
Corporate:
- Initial choice of the legal form of business (proprietorship, partnership or corporation)
- Incorporation (if that is the chosen form) and structuring of that start-up business format
- Re-organizations of existing corporate entities
- Equity financing and other forms of investments (including seed, angel and venture capital financing) in new or existing businesses, including due diligence
- Purchase and sale of existing businesses, including due diligence
- Annual general meetings, special meetings, directors' meetings
- Conversion of existing B.C. companies to new B.C. Business Corporations Act format
- Directors' duties and liabilities
- Shareholders' Agreements, Partnership Agreements, Joint Venture Agreements
- Employee equity participation, incentive, stock option arrangements
Commercial:
 Within the business:
- Employment law matters
- Employment agreements
- Severance negotiations
- Independent contractor agreements
- Non-disclosure and Confidentiality agreements
- Non-competition and non-solicitation agreements
- Intellectual property protection
- Recognition and proper treatment of newly-created or discovered intellectual property assets
- Structuring of business processes to minimize circulation of and access to confidential information
- Increasing employee awareness of, and educating employees regarding, confidentiality requirements
Between the business and its customers and suppliers:
- Review, negotiation and enforcement of:
- Supply contracts -- for tangible goods and intangible property including software
- Service contracts
- Commercial real estate leases
- Independent contractor agreements
- Franchise, License and Distribution agreements
- Intellectual Property issues
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