Business Law
Wineries and alcohol-sector businesses face corporate decisions at every stage, from initial incorporation and selecting the right share structure to bringing on investors, formalizing co-ownership arrangements, and navigating internal reorganizations as the business matures. Getting the corporate foundation wrong creates problems that compound over time and become significantly more expensive to unwind.
We act as corporate and commercial counsel to businesses across the alcohol industry, advising on both discrete transactions and the ongoing structural decisions that shape how a business operates, grows, and protects itself over the long term.
Our services include:
- Incorporation and business formation under the OBCA and CBCA
- Corporate structuring, including holding company and multi-entity arrangements
- Shareholder agreements, unanimous shareholder agreements, and partnership agreements
- Governance advice, board support, and corporate minute book maintenance
- Financing transactions, investor agreements, and lender documentation
- Mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and internal reorganizations
- Ownership transitions, buy-sell arrangements, and succession planning