Business Lawyers
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

Becca (Pillon) Beneteau
Lawyer
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David L. Brown
COUNSEL
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Megan Jenner
Partner
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Tyler Hortie
PARTNER
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Faisal Nasim
PARTNER
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Paul Steacy
PARTNER
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David Y. Zhang
LAWYER
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Our legal team is accessible, innovative, and professional.
Featured Articles
Buying and Selling Franchise Businesses
Faisal Nasim ANNOUNCER: I'm with Faisal Nasim from Cohen Highley Lawyers. Tell me about the sale and purchase of a franchise business. FAISAL: Clients often don't realize when buying or selling a franchise business that there are time sensitive moving parts to it....
What Business Owners Should Know About Succession Planning
Faisal Nasim ANNOUNCER: I'm with Faisal Nassim from Cohen Highly Lawyers. What should business owners know about succession planning? FAISAL: Succession planning is vital for businesses. It lets you plan for what happens to your business in the event of any key...
Legal Moment: Is it risky for small businesses to negotiate commercial leases?
Faisal Nasim ANNOUNCER: I'm with Faisal Nasim from Cohen Highley Lawyers. Is it risky for small businesses to negotiate commercial leases? FAISAL: Yes. Typically, landlords have an advantage over business owners since they deal with commercial leases regularly while...