In today's business environment, you need legal advice that is specialized, comprehensive and practical
What We Do
We have extensive experience meeting the business needs of local and foreign owned enterprises extending across every industry in British Columbia. At RBS we have a large corporate commercial practice with lawyers adept at negotiating major commercial transactions, experienced in acting for publicly listed companies and innovative at structuring complex corporate re-organizations. We understand that in the current volatile economic environment the only certainty is that things will change. Our role is helping clients no matter what the circumstances. Adapting to evolving needs our legal services are solutiondriven and cost-effective.
What You Can Expect from Us
Our business lawyers have a primary area of focus with an expertise that typically extends into related fields. Many of our lawyers also belong to related practice groups at RBS including: Real Estate, Construction, Securities, Intellectual Property, Wealth Preservation, and Employment Law. This allows us to provide a comprehensive, integrated approach to business client files that is responsive to the rapidly changing demands of today’s business climate.
Because of the large numbers of corporations we serve and the corresponding requirement for records maintenance we have a high ratio of corporate paralegals to business lawyers. Our clients benefit because our lawyers are able to delegate routine as well as more complex corporate services work and file maintenance to our highly qualified paralegals who perform that portion of work at a lower hourly rate or on a fixed fee basis. With other firms, lawyers often end up doing this work with clients paying higher hourly rates. This means your legal services dollars go further with us.
Legal Services
In today's business environment, you need legal advice that is specialized, comprehensive and practical. We provide advice in all aspects of starting, maintaining and developing your business including:
- Business planning and name registration
- Corporate structure, organization and governance
- Corporate services, including government filing requirements
- Director and officer duties and liability
- Intellectual property protection and IP audits
- Trade-mark advice and registration
- Borrowing and lending to finance new developments
- Financing and raising capital
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Early-stage financing and IPO
- All aspects of buying and selling a business (asset or share purchase and sale)
- Drafting, negotiating and reviewing all manner of commercial agreements such as:
- Partnership and shareholders agreements;
- Consultant agreements;
- Employment agreements and stock-option plans;
- Supply agreements;
- Commercial leases
Our clients include:
- Major financial institutions, credit unions and capital corporations
- Insurers
- Educational institutions
- National and international retail chains
- Natural resource and energy sector corporate clients
- Science and technology industry interests
- Manufacturing, processing and distribution businesses
For assistance please contact one of our business lawyers:
- Tim H.R. Brown*
- Michael P. Leroux
- Jeffrey J. Lowe
- Jay M. Munsie
- Joe C. Chan
- Georg D. Reuter
- Patrick (Rick) Montens
- Sharon E. White*
- Silvana M. Facchin
- Sze-Mei Yeung
- Michael A. Kale*
- Nicole F. McLoughlin
- Angela M. Spanjers
- Christopher M. Lennon
- Darren E. Penner
- Norman Q. Chow
Registered Trade-mark Agents:
Recent Articles/Publications
- "Legal Risk Audit", May, 2009 by Michael A. Kale
*denotes a law corporation