Keep good company

Your business requires effective and experienced counsel at each stage: structuring, governance and operation, strategic planning and risk management, growth, and succession.

Your MT+Co. team is purpose-built to meet the specific needs of your business. You will often have a key point of contact who coordinates a team of practitioners, each of whom possesses specific areas of expertise. Your team will adapt with your business as it expands, contracts, or shifts focus, but will remain committed to maximizing effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality.

MT+Co. helps:

• plan and structure new entities and businesses, including forming corporations, not-for-profit societies, various forms of partnerships, joint ventures, and trusts
• restructure existing businesses and groups of entities across national and international jurisdictions, including complex tax-driven corporate reorganizations
• maintain a focus on creating operational and tax efficiencies throughout all structuring, restructuring, and regular corporate activities
• work closely with and implement the advice of your business’ strategic advisors including tax planners, accountants, and business consultants
• develop governance structures and executive capacity
• advise on governance and director liability
• draft, negotiate, and interpret relationship agreements, including shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, joint venture agreements, and transitional agreements
• establish and maintain records and registry filings
• document regular corporate activities
• wind down and dissolve entities at end of life cycle

Want more? Get in touch with Dan Fogarty.

Buy, sell, and distribute with confidence

Negotiating successful commercial transactions requires specialized industry knowledge, regulatory expertise, and legal experience. MT+Co. has all three.

Our clients include businesses from across industries, including professional service providers, natural resource companies, manufacturers, distributors, Indigenous businesses and economic development structures, cannabis growers and distributors, technology companies, start-ups, and retailers whose transactions span local, regional, national, and international jurisdictions.

MT+Co. helps:

• structure, negotiate, and advise on commercial agreements, including supply, distribution, sale, leasing, licensing, manufacturing, service, and purchase and sale agreements across a wide variety of industries
• negotiate and complete debt and equity financing
• advise on intellectual property matters
• monitor and manage changing regulatory requirements
• resolve commercial disputes through negotiation, arbitration, and litigation
• draft, ratify, and complete transactions and MOUs between Indigenous and non-Indigenous entities

Want more? Get in touch with David Allardice.

Solutions for you and our environment

Whether you are looking to solve an environmental problem, manage environmental liability, get advice on regulatory compliance, or pave paths in emerging areas of law such as climate change and carbon offsets, MT+Co. can provide the experience and expertise required to develop solutions that work for you.

MT+Co. helps:

• manage statutory and civil environmental liability
• advise and represent on issues including contaminated sites and environmental offences
• navigate permitting and regulatory compliance
• represent parties involved in environmental litigation
• navigate administrative challenges and climate change regulation
• prepare and advise on carbon offset agreements

Want more? Get in touch with Joelle Walker. 

Sophisticated advice - delivered simply

When you need to borrow or lend funds, restructure financing, negotiate specialized credit facilities, or structure equity investment. MT+Co. creates and negotiates arrangements to meet your comprehensive, long-term needs.

MT+Co. helps with:

• secure loans
• project financing
• asset-based lending
• equipment financing
• mortgage financing
• syndicated loan facilities
• cross-border financing 
• financing for Indigenous and First Nation economic development

Want more? Get in touch with Peter Eirikson.

Disputes happen in business. We’re in the business of resolving them.

By working closely with you, we help manage, mitigate, and reduce risks arising from disputes. Our lawyers represent clients at all levels of court, in mediation, at arbitration, before regulatory bodies, and in administrative tribunal hearings.

MT+Co. helps with:

• corporate commercial disputes
• risk analysis
• complex contractual issues
• shareholder and transactional disputes
• product liability claims
• corporate governance matters
• business torts

Want more? Get in touch with Myles Brown. 

Corporate + Commercial Litigation Team

Real expertise in real estate

Your MT+Co. team negotiates and structures real estate deals in a fast-changing and unpredictable market. Whether your real estate transaction is part of a larger deal, or you want to tap into the value of what you already have while maintaining ownership, MT+Co. helps:

• acquire and divest land and real estate assets
• assist with financing obtained through public, private, syndicated, and institutional entities
• navigate municipal, regional, and industry land use and building regulations
• draft and review leases, leasebacks, lease assignments, and subleases
• assist with landlord-tenant disputes
• negotiate and sign partnership agreements to purchase and develop land
• draft and review ancillary real property documentation, such as easements, rights of way, and covenants
• apply Indigenous and First Nation land management to deals and development, including housing development

Want more? Get in touch with Navnit Duhra.

Navigating the complexities of securities law and the capital markets can be daunting. MT+Co. simplifies the process, delivering sophisticated advice to public and private companies in a straightforward manner.
MT+Co. helps:

• negotiate and complete debt and equity financing, including private placements, prospectus offerings and growth-stage (seed and series) financing rounds;
• advise on continuous disclosure requirements and other regulatory compliance;
• list companies on Canadian stock exchanges, including by way of initial public offering (IPO), reverse takeover (RTO), qualifying transactions and non-offering prospectus;
• buy, sell, or spin-off businesses or business entities through share purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, amalgamations and plans of arrangement;
• establish stock option plans (and other security-based compensation) for directors, officers, employees and consultants;
• advise on corporate governance for public companies, including board composition, conflict and control issues, insider disclosure requirements and special committee work; and
• navigate proxy battles, contentious shareholder meetings and investor disputes.

Want more? Get in touch with Mike Megalli or Dafydd Samuel.

The right law firm knows your workplace and your work

Workplace legal issues come in many forms, from simple administrative work to complex, emotional, and all-consuming investigation and litigation matters. We are here to help you navigate the changing work environment in a way that builds, manages, and protects your workforce and your reputation.

MT+Co.'s Workplace Law Group works with businesses that need approachable lawyers willing to create and provide cost-effective legal services.

MT+Co. helps:

• build comprehensive workplace governance and human resource systems that aligns and accounts for an employer’s policies, past practices, and legal obligations
• transfer, restructure, and advise on contractual requirements associated with mergers and acquisitions
• conduct workplace investigations
• navigate human rights and privacy issues
• discipline or terminate employees
• update policies and procedures
• respond to business interruptions and cyber-security threats

Our approach is to prevent, manage, and resolve workplace conflict and, when necessary, advocate on your behalf before courts and administrative tribunals.  

Want more? Get in touch with Connor Levy. 

Workplace Law Group