Business Law

Our Group

Miller Thomson’s Business Law Group is the core of the firm’s practice. With service team members located in all of our eleven offices across the country, our extensive presence not only in Canada’s major business centres, but through our well-developed and carefully selected affiliations, has our group exceptionally well-positioned to manage and coordinate our clients’ worldwide legal affairs.

Our Clients

Our clients are representative of the broad cross-section of participants in Canada’s business community. We serve and advise privately and publicly held corporations, financial institutions and many industry based associations and organizations, and are often asked to represent independent committees of boards of directors.

The operational and industry orientation of our clients is diverse, including Mining, Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Automotive, Technology, E-commerce, CleanTech, Telecommunications, Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Real Estate, Transportation, Hospitality, and Health Care and Life Sciences, among others.

Canada’s strong emphasis on foreign trade and permissive regime with respect to foreign investment is the reason that our Business Law Group also has a long-standing focus on assisting our non-Canadian clients in establishing and maintaining their business operations in Canada.

Our Services

The breadth and depth of our group’s experience and geographic coverage means that our clients can always access the full scope of relevant expertise required to advance their business goals, or when issues arise.

This means that we are as comfortable being at the table with you negotiating a significant transaction, as we are working in the background to ensure your compliance with the myriad of laws and regulations that affect your day-to-day operations. Our ability to do that comes from having in-depth experience across all of our business law practices. Whether the advice is corporate/commercial in nature, involves the negotiation of an outsourcing arrangement, the structuring of a private equity transaction, corporate governance issues, or touches on issues in the areas of advertising and marketing or franchising, we have the expertise you require. Our firm’s strong national Mergers and Acquisitions and Capital Markets and Securities practices also provide critical support to advancing the longer-term strategic initiatives of your business.

Our service teams are thoughtfully designed to respond to each client’s particular needs, and take a results-focused approach to legal services that anticipates and implements solutions that skilfully address immediate challenges as well as their broader business goals.