COMMERCIAL/CONTRACT LAW
Piché Handford LLP can advise you on, and assist you with, various elements of commercial and contract law, including:
Within the business:
- Employment law matters (refer to our Employment Law page for further details)
- Employment agreements
- Severance negotiations
- Independent contractor agreements
- Non-disclosure and Confidentiality agreements
- Non-competition and non-solicitation agreements
- Intellectual property protection (refer to our Intellectual Property page for further details)
- Recognition and proper treatment of newly-created or discovered intellectual property assets
- Structuring of business processes to minimize circulation of and access to confidential information
- Increasing employee awareness of, and educating employees regarding, confidentiality requirements
Between the business and its customers and suppliers:
- Drafting, negotiation and review of:
- Supply contracts -- for tangible goods and intangible property including software
- Service contracts
- Commercial real estate leases
- Independent contractor agreements
- Franchise, License and Distribution agreements
- Banking law, lending and borrowing issues (refer to our Banking Law page for further details)
- Negotiating and drafting loan and general security agreements
- Registration, extension, and discharge of security interests under the Personal Property Security Act
- Intellectual Property issues (refer to our Intellectual Property Law page for further details)
- Licensing (in-, out- and cross-) of various forms of intellectual property, including in particular software and trade-marks
- Cybersquatting and domain name protection, preservation and retrieval
- Branding
We also advise regarding acquisitions and sales of businesses, including franchises; please refer to the appropriate portions of our website for further details.
