Known as Blakes, this firm has served Canadian and international businesses for more than 150 years from offices including Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver, Ottawa, Montreal, New York and London. Blakes is particularly well regarded for mergers and acquisitions, banking and finance, and commercial litigation, and its lawyers are consistently ranked among the top advisers on Canadian M&A league tables by Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters and Mergermarket. As a Featured Partner on LawDB, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP is highlighted for anyone browsing Toronto-area law firms.
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Business / Corporate
From the Firm
Foreign Investment in Canada: Navigating the Investment Canada Act From Net Benefit to National Security
A guide to how foreign investment reviews in Canada work today, covering both the net-benefit test and the growing national-security side of the process.
General guidance for this kind of matter, not advice about your situation and not specific to this firm.
Questions worth asking
Have you worked with businesses at my stage and size?
Flat fee or hourly for this piece of work?
What will you need from me to keep the cost down?
Who handles it if this later turns into a dispute?
How this work is usually billed
Defined tasks, incorporation, a shareholder agreement, a lease review, are commonly flat-fee. Ongoing or transactional work is hourly. Some firms offer a monthly arrangement for steady advisory work.
What to have ready
Your incorporation documents if you have them, any agreement you are being asked to sign, and a plain description of what you are trying to achieve.
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