Corporate Services

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Your day-to-day business operations will inevitably create legal needs, our goal is to provide preventative support. We help your business prepare for and address those day-to-day needs in order to avoid large and costly legal issues down the line.

Our team helps with:

Don’t rely on gut instinct or educated guesses for your business decisions, our corporate lawyers can assist you from the early days to navigate vital choices. This includes selecting an entity type for your business, drafting and negotiating the relevant documents, and advising on the optimal capital structure. Our lawyers can be an impartial resource and act on behalf of the best interest of the business to advise on the roles and responsibilities of the board of directors, officers, managers, and committees. They can also advise on the policies and procedures for reporting, disclosure, compliance, risk management, and ethics. Corporate structuring can have significant implications for the ownership, control, liability, taxation, financing, and operations of a business – a well-built structure is a well operating business.

What was once just an idea, or a passion project is now your business – you are moving up and forward. No matter how new of an endeavour, there are legal hurdles you must face now to maintain your company’s success and legal health in the long term. Our lawyers love helping our clients at this early stage when things are just getting started. You need a practical solution that guarantees quality while keeping costs in check. We have experienced lawyers who can guide you through the process with transparent fixed fee arrangements that make sense for early-stage companies. We partner with innovative technology companies to automate the incorporation process as much as possible to get things done quickly, efficiently and properly. We keep your costs and stress as low as possible.

Corporate governance matters can be a web of complex and dynamic legal/regulatory issues that require expert advice and guidance to successfully navigate. Our team will help you with:

The design, implementation, and review of corporate governance frameworks, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance;
Drafting, negotiating, and reviewing corporate documents, such as articles of incorporation, bylaws, shareholder agreements and board resolutions; and
Conducting due diligence, audits, and investigations on corporate governance matters, such as compliance, risk management, internal controls, disclosure, and reporting.

A standard template might be all you need, but making an investment in qualified advice is never a bad decision. Shareholder agreements are important when your company does well and when it struggles. Investing in the right decision is in your best interest. We have helped many great Canadian companies in their early days to get things started off on the right foot, avoiding larger issues later on. We take the time to get it right and ensure you understand the nuances of the agreement’s legalese while keeping the cost appropriate for a company just getting started. And if all you need is a simple agreement, that’s all we’ll give you.

Public companies can face complex and evolving disclosure and reporting obligations, but you don’t need to navigate them on your own. Our team of corporate lawyers are well versed in corporate compliance strategies for public companies and can assist with a variety of hurdles, including:

Preparing and filing periodic and current reports, proxy statements, registration statements, and other SEC filings;
Advising on disclosure controls, insider trading and shareholder activism;
Draft and review disclosure documents;
Implement best practices; and
Navigate and respond to inquiries and investigation.

Caravel Law’s lawyers have years of experience working within companies, giving them the depth of operational experience and collaborative values that simply do not exist when relying on the traditional outside law firms (after all, that’s why you call them “outside” counsel). After years of practicing in-house, as many of our lawyers have, you develop skills, insights and a business-mindedness that simply can’t be replicated from an isolated corner office, no matter how good the view.