LaBarge Weinstein’s commercial real estate group has grown over the last decade to provide the core legal support to some of eastern Ontario’s largest commercial builders and residential developers, working in high volume multi-unit sales and conveyancing support settings, including some of Ottawa’s highest profile mortgage placements and sales over the past five years.

Our team can service all of your day-to-day leasing needs, from portfolio managers seeking cost-effective, efficient and judicious management of a diverse cross-section of properties, to entrepreneurs looking for the latest trends and rates as they prepare for their firm’s next big move.

If you are hitting the dirt instead of the keyboard, our lawyers can help, and we’d love an opportunity to discuss and meet your needs.

Whether you are looking to efficiently structure your initial management team’s equity allocations, maintain your venture’s CCPC status in light of offshore investment, craft acquisition earn-out arrangements or simply to take a fresh look at your firm’s international sales and off-shoring strategy, our tax group can assist. Working with your tax and accounting advisors or otherwise, the members of our tax group get under the business hood to understand long-term goals, de-mystify the “tax-speak” for non-professionals, define any strategy’s clear objectives and constantly balance that strategy’s benefits against the need for practical and scalable enterprise structures. Lastly, if you do find yourself or your firm at the wrong end of a nasty assessment, our professionals would be happy to leverage their collective years of experience in dispute resolution and litigation with CRA to help you manage and resolve any potential liabilities.

If you are looking for some fresh thinking or some clear answers before that next filing deadline, please contact any of our professionals and we would be happy to assist.

Please contact any of our professionals if you would like to discuss how we might help you with that next big sale.

Whether dealing with the acquisition or sale of a private or public company or operating in the world of public company takeovers, our partners and professionals have a terrific ability to see the trees through the forest, focus on the key elements and help you create and maintain the deal momentum from term sheet to due diligence to closing, recognizing the transaction risks and offering up a fee structure that fits your needs. We have years of experience in managing the tricks and traps of cross-border and earn-out structures and in complementing management teams in their efforts to manage investor, employee and stakeholder communications before and after the deal’s completion.

Please contact any of our partners listed if you’d like to discuss how we might leverage our transaction experiences to help you meet your objectives.

We help companies access funding and venture capital through the public market vehicles promoted by exchanges in Canada and abroad. More important, we are uniquely sensitive to the needs of public company management team seeking to navigate financing, liquidity and compliance challenges after the initial public offering. Since the late 1990′s we have been offering our clients fixed-fee securities law compliance solutions, and we’re similarly happy to provide fixed fee, reliable quotes on for the transaction opportunities that come up from time to time. We’ve built our reputation on demystifying the compliance process for senior management, and delivering cost-effective, practical and reliable advice that facilitates rather than inhibits your strategic initiatives.

We would love to help simplify your engagement with the public markets, and please contact any of our professionals if you would like to discuss how our experience and offering might complement your team.

As important, our partners and professionals have a tremendous track record in helping companies across Canada structure and monitor the external debt and equity investments that are often key drivers of their growth. Whether the source of your support is friends and family, angel and seed investors, venture capital or venture debt firms, strategic partners or traditional lenders, and whether or not those investors hail from across Canada’s borders, we can help. In each case, we do so with proportionate, thoughtful advice delivered with a pricing model that suits the stage of your business, and as importantly with a keen eye on the range of possible future relationships or transactions that might be crucial to your success.

If you and your management team are just getting started or setting your sights on new challenges, we would love a chance to lend a hand. Please contact any of our professionals if you would like to discuss how we might contribute to your efforts.