Complex cases, unique situations : we help you navigate the business world.
Lafortune Cadieux’s clients consist mainly of established and growing businesses, engaged in various economic sectors. Whether it be in the field of innovative technologies, artificial intelligence, software and application development, the cultural field (production, audiovisual and digital distribution) or the vital real estate and manufacturing sectors, our skilled lawyers will know how to advise and guide your business in its development, or in its acquisition and restructuring projects.
We also act as legal advisers for the directors, officers and shareholders of our clientele, assisting them in matters of corporate governance, business decision-making and management of their relations with their partners, employees, representatives, clients and suppliers.
Moreover, we work closely with various professionals, accountants, tax experts, notaries, bankers and foreign lawyers and consultants, in order to provide you with fast, efficient and responsive services at all times, so you can focus on what really matters.
All our lawyers are dedicated to offer you exceptional legal services, in accordance with the highest standards of quality.
Business Law
We provide services to our clients in all areas of corporate and commercial law including: incorporation and organization of start-ups, shareholders’ or partners’ agreements, corporate secretarial services, mergers and acquisitions, corporate financing, sale and purchase of shares or assets of businesses, negotiation, interpretation and drafting of commercial agreements, real estate, franchising, distribution, implementation of incentive plans for key employees, as well as the issuance of relevant legal opinions on these subject matters.
We also have great expertise in drafting complex contracts and agreements in all fields, including in the information technology sector.
Professional Partnerships and Corporations
Lawyers from Lafortune Cadieux work for many professional partnerships and corporations (dentists, doctors, lawyers, chartered professional accountants, physiotherapists, veterinarians, architects, optometrists, nurses, etc.) and have developed a great expertise in this field. We can advise you on the acquisition of professional firms, shareholders’ agreements, partnership agreements, incorporation, legal structures, compliance with particular formalities provided by laws and regulations applicable to professionals, hiring of professionals or break-up of professional partnerships. Being professionals and entrepreneurs ourselves, we are very appreciative of the many particularities of the legal and commercial issues experienced by our clientele in this area.
Employment Law
Lafortune Cadieux offers its clients a full range of employment law services, including the drafting of employment contracts, confidentiality agreements, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, development of workplace policies for the prevention of psychological and sexual harassment, advice on the application of labour standards legislation, assistance with the hiring or termination of employees, senior executives and officers.
We assist our clients in complying with labour standards. We provide representation services in communications with the CNESST regarding employee complaints, mediations, and administrative investigations.
Intellectual Property and Technologies
The lawyers of Lafortune Cadieux have the expertise needed to help clients in matters of trademarks and copyrights in Canada and can draft and negotiate license and technology-transfer and sharing agreements, in addition to protecting their intellectual property.
We also work closely with several corporations in the field of information technology, communication and artificial intelligence.
We also advise our clients on the development of privacy protection policies and assist them in complying with privacy legislation requirements.
Tax and Estate Planning
Our firm implements various tax and estate planning for its clients, by means of corporate reorganizations and the establishment of trusts.
We are also specialized in the preparation and drafting of complex tax and estate planning for businessmen and businesswomen and member of their families, such as fiduciary wills or protection mandates adapted to entrepreneurs (foreseeing, for example, what happens to the management of their businesses in the event of their incapacity).