Short profile:
Leading international business law and litigation firm with offices in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec, London, Paris and Johannesburg. A great many of the activities carried on in today's business environment – mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, licensing, distribution and dealer agreements, marketing and advertising, grey marketing, labelling and packaging, and trade association activities – are affected by competition and marketing laws. At the same time, businesses, directors, officers and employees are subject to increasing scrutiny by antitrust/competition agencies in Canada, England and in other jurisdictions.
Keywords:
lawyer, solicitor, clinical, negligence, claims, personal, injury, conveyancing, hips, law, probate, wills, tax, trusts, commercial, advice, solicitors, property, company, employment, legal, planning, divorce, buy, house, sell, divorced, banking, debt financing, business law, commercial law, competition, corporate governance, public, private, partnerships, infrastructure, commercial real estate, development, corporate finance, securities, environmental prosecutions, project permitting, regulatory compliance, financial recovery, insolvency, restructuring, business immigration, human rights, occupational, freedom of information, litigation, dispute, resolution, administrative, constitutional, mergers, acquisitions, mining, natural resource, business taxation, property tax, attorney, corporate
Detailed description:
Members of the Trusts, Wills, Estate and Charities group practising in the Charities and Not-For-Profit sector provide legal services related to the effective creation, organization and ongoing governance and administration of charities and not-for-profit entities. We advise donors with respect to effective charitable giving as well as the establishment, maintenance and operation charities and not-for-profit entities. Our Estate Planning services includes wills, domestic contracts, business succession planning, planned giving, powers of attorney and trusts. We can assist you with your responsibilities in the administration of an estate, a trust or if you are acting as a power of attorney. When your estate planning requires additional expertise, we are able to partner with other experts to ensure all your options are explored. Our Personal Tax Planning practitioners offer a broad range of services to assist clients in developing effective strategies for minimizing taxes including probate taxes, within the framework of the will or estate plan. We can provide both cross border and international tax planning. If you have a trust, will or estate related or a related dispute, we act as a fiduciary or as a beneficiary members of our Estate Litigation group can represent your interests in the pursuit of an effective solution. The lawyers in Fasken Martineau's Financial Institutions and Services Practice Group are leading advisors to financial institutions and other regulated and unregulated financial services providers. We help clients achieve their strategic, corporate and regulatory objectives. We advise clients about establishing banks, trust and insurance companies and credit unions, and branches of foreign banks and insurance companies in Canada.
