Corporate Law and Reorganizations:

     Since its inception, serving the needs of its corporate clients has been the primary focus of Sorbara, Schumacher, McCann LLP.  We understand business law and take a practical business approach to addressing the business needs of our corporate clients.  The lawyers at Sorbara, Schumacher, McCann LLP seek to facilitate, rather than frustrate the results our clients are attempting to achieve in their various business dealings.  Services provided within our corporate practice include:

•   incorporation and organization
•   partnerships
•   limited partnerships
•   joint ventures and strategic alliances
•   corporate governance and statutory compliance
•   corporate finance and financing transactions
•   reorganizations and restructurings
•   asset and share transactions
•   commercial leasing
•   commercial contracts
•   manufacturing and distribution agreements
•   franchising transactions
•   shareholder agreements
•   employment contracts
•   technology and intellectual property

     At Sorbara, Schumacher, McCann LLP, we do all that we can to ensure that your business runs smoothly and profitably.  We help our business clients avoid the many legal pitfalls which can often derail a successful business enterprise.  We provide advice on virtually all aspects of your routine business and commercial dealings.  We are completely responsive to the needs of our corporate clients and many times problems can be avoided or a solution found by a simple telephone conversation.  Whatever your objectives, Sorbara, Schumacher, McCann LLP can assist you in restructuring your business in order to achieve the desired result in a manner which minimizes the tax implications of your reorganization.  We have considerable experience in corporate reorganizations and restructurings.  We understand amalgamations and other merger and corporate reorganizations and have a particular affinity for tax-structured reorganizations.  We are routinely involved in transactions utilizing the rollover provisions of the Income Tax Act.  Whether you are involved in a butterfly reorganization, share exchange, reallocation of assets, seeking to utilize a capital gains exemption or eliminate inter-corporate debt, we can ensure that your restructuring transactions are properly recorded so as to minimize the chances of an adverse audit.  In furtherance of succession plans, we have utilized the provisions of the Income Tax Act to reorganize many closely held corporations so as to freeze an estate or prepare for the orderly passing of the torch to the next generation.  We work closely with your tax advisors and have a keen appreciation of the tax implications of reorganizations and restructurings.

For more information, please contact:
Sam Sorbara ssorbara@sorbaralaw.com
Peter G. Somerville