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

Megan Alexander

Megan Alexander

Paralegal

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Becca (Pillon) Beneteau

Becca (Pillon) Beneteau

Lawyer

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David L. Brown

David L. Brown

COUNSEL

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Keon Coleman

Keon Coleman

LAWYER

Megan Jenner

Megan Jenner

Partner

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Tyler Hortie

Tyler Hortie

PARTNER

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Faisal Nasim

Faisal Nasim

PARTNER

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Paul Steacy

Paul Steacy

PARTNER

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David Y. Zhang

David Y. Zhang

LAWYER

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Our legal team is accessible, innovative, and professional.

We hold ourselves accountable for the quality of our work on every file and for every client. We are committed to meeting the needs of our clients, while acting fairly, firmly and with integrity. We will innovate and adapt to enable us to achieve practical and effective legal solutions.

Featured Articles

Uncontested Divorce

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...

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What Are Notional Taxes?

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...

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