Forestry
Our Services
Miller Thomson’s Forestry Group provides advice to clients on a wide variety of legal issues affecting the forestry industry including:
- Mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and complex financings
- Stumpage appeals, adjustments in allowable cut, tree farm licensing and forest tenure agreements and acquisition of cutting rights and timber quotas
- Agreements such as chip, log, pulp and paper sales, brokerage and long-term supply agreements
- Water licence applications
- Labour and employment matters such as arbitrations, Workers’ Compensation Board and Industrial relations Council hearings and collective agreement negotiations and drafting
- Environmental issues including audits, compliance, due diligence, handling administrative proceedings before the Environmental Appeal Board and environmental litigation
- Land issues, real property assessment, property development projects and native land claims
- Counsel on competition issues and on tariff and international trade issues
- Transportation agreements on private roads, hauling and marine towing
- Government Board and Commission negotiations
- Logging sub-contracts and contracts
- License holder, contractor and sub-contractor relationships and the application of the Timber Harvesting Contract and Subcontract Regulation
- Mediation and arbitration of disputes with license holders arising under logging contracts and subcontracts, including rate disputes and amount of work disputes
- Provide litigation support to in-house counsel
- Finance and business sale or purchase
- Land and license issues
- Property rights
- Regulatory compliance