For Businesses at Cohen Highley LLP
Comprehensive Business Owner Representation
Your business deserves more than generic legal advice. Our business lawyers provide tailored legal support for startups, growing businesses, and international enterprises alike. We help you structure your business, protect your assets, reduce tax exposure, and plan for long-term success.
We offer a full range of services, including:
- Business Structuring and Succession: Federal, provincial, professional corporations, and nonprofits.
- Business Purchases and Sales: Share and asset transactions handled with precision.
- Contracts: Drafting, review, and negotiation across services, commercial leases, shareholder and partnership agreements, joint ventures, and inter-vivos trusts.
- Franchising: End-to-end legal support for franchisees and franchisors.
- Banking and Finance: Full-service support for credit facilities, security agreements, and financing transactions.
- Corporate Restructuring: Restructuring and reorganization aligned with your tax and compliance needs.
- Corporate Governance: Due diligence, governance consulting, and minute book maintenance.
- Health Care Law: full service support in legal matters relating to the practices of dentists, physicians, pharmacists, psychologists, optometrists and other health care professionals in the Province of Ontario.
If you are a landlord, property manager, or housing provider please also visit our Multi-Residential Housing page.
Featured Lawyers & Paralegals
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Our legal team is accessible, innovative, and professional.
Featured Articles
Uncontested Divorce
Uncontested Divorce Article by Erin Burns Ending a marriage is a major life change, but if you and your spouse have finalized a Separation Agreement, the steps toward divorce are often simpler than expected. With the hard work of reaching an agreement behind you, the...
What Are Notional Taxes?
What Are Notional Taxes? Article by Ken Fraser When spouses separate in Ontario, it is often necessary to address issues that relate to the assets and liabilities owned by each spouse. To properly address these issues, the spouses must know the accurate value for each...
The Importance of Financial Disclosure in Family Law
The Importance of Financial Disclosure in Family Law Article by Ken Fraser In Family Law, Judges have consistently described the duty to disclose financial information as the most basic obligation in Family Law. Judges have raised concerns that the failure to abide by...