The Road Map for Sale and Purchase of a Business

 

Advising clients on the purchase or sale of a business requires you to stay abreast of all applicable legislation and procedures. Written by one of Canada’s leading commercial law practitioners, this fully revised and updated edition provides comprehensive, step-by-step guidance that takes you through the sale of a business from beginning to end.   

 

Features and Benefits

 

·         Expert commentary – offers sufficient background to enable you to easily adapt the forms to the transaction at hand, and alerts you to particular statutory requirements

·         Forms and precedents – more than 150 transactional and legal documents tailored to your client’s needs. In certain cases, alternative or optional clauses are supplied which supplement the precedents

·         Checklists – numerous checklists will help you structure documents from beginning to end, as well as create custom-made documents

 

Also included are:

 

• Alternative clauses for purchase agreements providing additional flexibility in your drafting
• Numerous search letter precedents
• Discussion of the issues that arise in organizing and financing the purchase, including precedents to accompany the commentary
• Special Vendor section – estates, secured creditors, receivers, trustees in bankruptcy, mortgagees under power of sale
• Checklists are cross-referenced to pertinent commentary, including:
  • Freehold Investigations
  • Shareholder Agreements
  • Partnership Agreements
  • Considerations for Purchaser/Vendor
  • Purchasing a Franchise
  • Employment and Labour Law
  • Intellectual Property
  • Environmental Considerations
  • Pension Considerations

 

New in This Edition

 

• An all at a glance chart on provincial securities transfer legislation
• Latest update on provincial bulk sales legislation and registry directory and contact information

 

Includes a CD-ROM of more than 150 forms and precedents including: letters of intent, search letters to employment standards offices and the Workers Compensation Board, share purchase agreements, and real estate transfer forms.