Commercial Transactions
Our strength lies in our ability to anticipate the needs of our clients in commercial transactions and finding practical and efficient ways to complete transactions while ensuring that the particular interests of our clients are protected and advanced.
Our extensive experience in dealing with our diverse clientele, including significant companies in industries of retail, manufacturing, real estate, technology, liquidation and importing, has enabled us to become specialized in virtually all of the commercial legal services needs of small to medium businesses.
We are consistently called upon to provide our clients with practical advice in the context of commercial dealings involving distribution arrangements, license agreements, equity and debt participations and joint ventures. Our experience in insolvency law provides us with the depth of knowledge required to provide our clients with as much protection as possible in such business dealings. Our services in commercial matters include the establishment of new business ventures and related agreements such as shareholder agreements, joint venture agreements, partnerships, profit-sharing and other innovative business structure solutions.
We also render services of all kinds with respect to corporate matters, from incorporation to dissolution, including maintenance of corporate records and working in concert with accountants for tax-driven transactions and restructuring.
Expertise
Banking
Kugler Kandestin has worked closely with one of the major Canadian chartered banks for decades and services many other Canadian and U.S. financial institutions in banking matters.
We provide valuable services to our clients from the outset of proposed financings and other banking arrangements so that they are able to adjust their expectations accordingly. We are frequently consulted by banks to assist them in complicated or difficult banking and financing issues, with our particular expertise being in the area of non-performing loans.
Factoring
Our firm has enjoyed relationships with numerous clients in the factoring business for decades.
We are sensitive to the needs of factoring clients, both in terms of pricing as well as timing. We have demonstrated to our clients time and again that we are capable of identifying and minimizing risk in factoring arrangements.
Mergers and Acquisitions
We assist clients in the purchase and sale of businesses, whether by way of shares or assets.
Our services in connection with mergers and acquisitions are comprehensive and include employment, financing, refinancing, shareholder and transitional matters.
Real Estate Transactions
We represent real estate developers, finance businesses and owners with a substantial portfolio of real estate holdings.
We assist clients in leasing matters, real estate financings and acquisitions and sales. Our experience extends to counselling clients on various aspects of commercial real estate development, including partnerships and joint ventures in real estate transactions.
Secured Financing
We have continually represented lenders and borrowers over the years in a wide variety of commercial finance transactions, and add value and expertise at all levels.
Our advantage in servicing our clients’ financing needs arises not only from our many years of servicing clients in the financial industry, but also from our extensive bankruptcy, insolvency, restructuring and litigation practice. The knowledge and skills acquired in our financing practice enables us to meet all of our clients’ needs in connection with financing and refinancing as and when required, whether for new or existing businesses. In fact, a number of our clients have sought out our services following our representation of lenders from whom they obtained financing.
We have a long history of representing prominent banks, both in Canada and the United States, as well as Canadian and U.S. asset-based lenders. We have worked with such lenders both in the ordinary course, as well as in the context of insolvencies and restructurings.