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Sale of a Business, 9th Edition

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.



Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
Country: Canada
Format: Softcover + CD-ROM
Publication Language: English
ISBN: 9780433472674
Publication Date: 2012-11-30
 
Price: $115.00
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    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
    • Update on provincial changes to harmonization of HST or deharmonization to GST and provincial sales tax
    • Recent changes to real estate conveyancing practices
    • Recent amendments to provincial franchise laws
    • New precedents
    • New and updated revised forms for paper and electronic filing
    • Latest update on government and registration 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.



    Billing Method: Biennial Publication – Standing Order Terms Apply

    Chapter 1: Preliminary Notes
    Chapter 2: Preliminary Issues
    Chapter 3: Due Diligence and Investigations
    Chapter 4: Documenting the Asset Deal
    Chapter 5: Documenting the Share Deal
    Chapter 6: The Special Vendor
    Chapter 7: Organizing the Purchaser
    Chapter 8: Financing the Deal
    Checklists
    Forms and Precedents

     

    Jennifer E. Babe, LL.B., LL.M.


    Jennifer E. Babe, LL.B., LL.M., a partner at Miller Thomson LLP, practises commercial law with a focus on secured transactions, the securing of sales and leases of significant products and the purchases of businesses, assets and shares. Ms. Babe is the past Chair of the Business Section of the Canadian Bar Association, recognized in the 2009, 2010 and 2011 LEXPERT/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada and a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers.

     

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