Business Law
Are you starting a business? Are you expanding an existing small business? If so, you will need appropriate legal advice to guide you to the right business structure for your needs. Whether it is a sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation, Farrow Hicks Law can set up the most appropriate operating structure for you. The right business structure can help you minimize risk and reduce taxes, while contemplating the future of your business.
Perhaps you are a sole proprietorship and working from home and are looking to move to the next stage of development in your business plan. If that is the case, we can help you incorporate your business and set it up with the appropriate officers, directors and shareholders to suit your particular circumstances. If you have more than one shareholder in the business, you will need a shareholders’ agreement to govern the relationship among the shareholders and to provide the tools to determine what should happen if the relationship among the shareholders deteriorates.
Or perhaps you need to re-organize the structure of your business for succession planning and minimizing taxes. Maybe you need to add a family trust into the structure for tax purposes. If so, we can advise you and provide the legal services you need to follow through.
At Farrow Hicks Law, we provide the following services:
- Business Registrations – Sole proprietorships/Partnerships
- Incorporations
- Joint Ventures
- Shareholders’ Agreements
- Re-organizations and amalgamations
- Commercial contracts
- Commercial financing
- Family Trusts
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