LaBarge Weinstein offers legal advisory services including corporate law, taxation, securities, mergers and acquisitions, technology and commercial transactions and real estate litigation. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.
Friday, November 04, 2011
Events & Calander
It has been a busy event season, with our lawyers Mike Dunleavy and James Smith leading the charge at the Fourth Annual “Suit Off” social event at the Banff Venture Forum, co-hosted again this year with specialty venture lender Espresso Capital Partners, and more recently with James and associate Colin Wrynn addressed the Founder Fuel crowd at the Notman House in Montreal. Look for our team at the upcoming
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Friday, November 04, 2011
Dealflow Report
Here is a sample of recent publicly-announced transactions that we’ve worked on this spring:
- Shopify Series B Financing
- Wattpad Series A Financing
- Regen Energy Private Placement
- QUALComm acquisition of assets of GestureTek
- Google acquisition of PostRank
- GoInstant Seed Financing
- TribeHR Seed Financing
- GrowLab (Vancouver) Financing
Friday, November 04, 2011
How ‘Ya Gonna Keep ‘Em Down On The Farmville…
Nora Bayes couldn’t have trumpeted the triumph of social gaming any better. Shedding the “really? no, seriously?” doubters over the past five years, venture investors are turning over rocks around the globe to find that even ‘angrier bird’, or the ‘neo-er pet’, and wrapping their no longer sceptical arms around the industry’s addiction to
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Friday, November 04, 2011
Scraping and scrapping…
On the heels of some big data scraper and indexer acquisitions in Canada and elsewhere over the past year (think Radian6 and PostRank, among others), the British Columbia Supreme Court’s recent decision involving Century 21’s efforts to tame Zoocasa’s reproduction of its real estate listing has the Canadian industry buzzing
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Friday, November 04, 2011
Innovation Policy and Innovation DNA…
Over the past year, the Canadian government has turned to Open Text’s Tom Jenkins and his committee to transform perennial hand-wringing into some plan of action for more effective research commercialization, and to rethink our approach to subsidizing R&D spending. Startups, investors and service providers across the country
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Sterling Partners Agrees to Acquire MOSAID Technologies for $46 per Share
MOSAID Technologies Inc. (TSX:MSD) announced on October 27, 2011 that it had entered into an arrangement agreement Sterling Partners pursuant to which Sterling will acquire all the outstanding common shares of MOSAID for a cash payment of $46.00 per share. (See Press Release Here)
LaBarge Weinstein Professional Corporation acted as legal counsel to MOSAID in connection with the transaction.
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