What is a Minute Book and Do You Need One?

The decision to dissolve a corporation is significant and requires careful planning.

A well-drafted shareholders' agreement is a crucial document that helps define the relationships, rights, and obligations among shareholders of a corporation.

For lenders, it ensures that the loan is repaid according to the agreed-upon terms and provides a legal framework for recovering the loan in case of default.

Whether you’re sharing proprietary data with potential partners, employees, or investors, maintaining confidentiality is key to preserving your competitive edge.

All partnerships in Quebec are required to have a formal partnership agreement signed between all the parties.

In any employment relationship, a well-drafted employment contract is essential to ensure clarity, fairness, and legal protection for both the employer and the employee.

It should address the ownership of intellectual property created during the engagement, ensuring that the business retains rights to any work produced.

This arrangement benefits both the consignor (the owner of the goods) and the consignee (the seller), allowing for flexible inventory management and reduced financial risk.

Corporation's can secure investments through private loans, sale of shares, convertible debentures among many other options available.

The legal part of your business is what keeps your structure stable and solid, and ultimately corporate lawyers are there to ensure that your business is not constantly opening itself up to litigation.

Retail leases for big shopping centres are not your typical commercial lease. They will include a whole host of clauses that you will not necessarily find in a classic commercial.

The notarial practice and professional is bound to be deeply transformed by the innovations offered by blockchain technology.

Over the years, we’ve heard all the excuses for not writing a Will. Let us clear up some misconceptions about writing a Will.

How can I prepare for the first meeting for my Last Will?

What is an Advance Medical Directive?

This article examines the risks and safeguards surrounding the transition from traditional paper-based notarial acts to dematerialized ones, addressing concerns about their long-term security and reliability.

Quebec Government announces the approval of notarial electronic deeds.

What is a true copy or an authentic copy of a notarial deed?

Due to COVID-19, on March 27th 2020, the government of Quebec approved the signing of electronic notarial deeds.

How to write a power of attorney online.

This article will take you through the step by step process to starting a business in Quebec. From choosing your name, filing your articles of incorporation, getting your sales tax numbers and creating your minute book, we cover it all.

A commercial lease is a written agreement that is made between a landlord and a commercial tenant. This agreement allows the commercial tenant to use the space provided for by the landlord for a specified period of time in exchange for payment.

Having these 3 basic contracts will ensure that your business runs smoothly and is not consistently opening itself up to litigation.

Although non-profit organizations and registered charities function under a non-profit basis, they are two different and separate entities. This article will explain the main differences between both entities and how their purposes differ.

Shareholder agreements are most valuable when certain problematic situations arise in a corporation. These are some of the questions shareholders should keep in mind.

First and foremost, both the Quebec laws and Canadian federal laws require businesses to maintain, at their head office, a proper book of records.

As such, we compiled a short list of the most important yearly obligations of a business. From filing your taxes, to filing your annual return to updating your minute book. Completing these requirements every year will ensure that your business does not have to pay additional penalties, taxes or even more so, ensure that your business stays alive.

This article will outline the different advantages and drawbacks that come with incorporating a federal or provincial corporation in order to help corporations choose where they should incorporate their businesses.

In this article, we will be outlining the three main benefits of incorporating a business versus opening a sole proprietorship or partnership that are often times overlooked by entrepreneurs.

Partnership agreements are most valuable when certain problematic situations arise in a business. By signing a partnership agreement at the start of the partnership, the partners will establish a set of rules and guidelines to handle these situations and to avoid the additional headache associated therewith.

Hiring an independent contractor versus an employee can have a large fiscal impact on a business. In fact, many businesses will commonly shy away from forming an employer-employee relationship with their workers in order to benefit from the advantages of having a worker characterized as an independent contractor.

Expanding an already-established extra-provincial, foreign or US business into Quebec is a straight-forward and simple task which involves registering the business at the Quebec Enterprise Registry.

The legal clean-up can consist of hundreds of elements, but there are some across the board that we see with all of our clients that are in this situation: Articles of Incorporation, Minute Book, Contracts.

This arrangement benefits both the consignor (the owner of the goods) and the consignee (the seller), allowing for flexible inventory management and reduced financial risk.

This arrangement benefits both the consignor (the owner of the goods) and the consignee (the seller), allowing for flexible inventory management and reduced financial risk.