SERVICES WE PROVIDE / CLIENTS WE SERVE

New Business Organization

Wishart creates customized structures using corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships or joint ventures to maximize every business interest.

Environmental/ Zoning Law

Wishart obtains optimum zoning for business operations. We ensure that environmental laws are complied with and that liabilities are avoided.

Labour & Employment Law

Wishart negotiates and advises on Collective Agreements with unions, in order to avoid unknown costs and labour disruptions. We advise and ensure that all employee relations are in accordance with Canadian laws/ standards and we provide contracts for both staff and hourly rated employees.

Land/ Plant Acquisitions

Wishart advises and negotiates the acquisition of essential land, buildings and equipment purchases or leases. We direct clients to appropriate financing, while maximizing local, regional and national assistance programs.

Immigration/ Employee Relocation

Wishart completes immigration applications and liaises with local and federal immigration officials to ensure smooth approvals for key employees. We assist employees to acquire appropriate housing and to smooth the relocation process.

Practice Areas

We have extensive expertise in all crucial Practice Areas, specifically developed to meet the full range of client needs.

Corporate & Commercial Law

• Formation and organization of new businesses and/or corporations
• Joint ventures and syndications
• Corporate Reorganization
• Partnership and shareholders’ agreements
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Licensing, franchising and distributorship agreements
• Co-operative marketing arrangements
• Bank financing and venture capital
• Financial assistance from Government
• Intellectual property matters
• Director and officer responsibilities
• Tax planned business structures
• Profit repatriation designing

Insolvency & Realization

• Corporate and personal bankruptcies
• Security Realizations
• Trustee and receiver advice
• Corporate Restructuring
• Proposals and arrangements
• Collections
• Work outs and debt restructuring

Commercial Real Estate

• Purchase or sale of commercial, multi-unit residential and industrial property
• Commercial mortgage and other security transactions
• Commercial leasing
• Land assembly and development
• Condominium and multi-unit rental developments
• Planning, zoning and re-zoning matters

Commercial Litigation

• Shareholders’ and partnership disputes
• Temporary and permanent injunctions
• Receiver/manager applications
• Breach of contract lawsuits
• Securities litigation
• Tax/Assessment litigation
• Mortgage enforcement and debt collections
• Rent control and landlord/tenant disputes
• Commercial arbitrations
• Copyright and patent infringement

Civil Litigation

• Negligence claims
• Motor vehicle accidents and personal injury claims
• Civil sexual assault claims
• Contested wills and estates litigation
• Libel and slander
• Class actions
• Representations before administrative tribunals
• Judicial review applications

Environmental

• Protection of planned acquisitions
• Environmental compliance and Due Diligence
• Environmental Insurance
• Defending environmental charges
• Defending and launching class action law suits
• Response training for legal emergencies

Residential Real Estate

• Mortgages and financing
• Development of residential subdivisions, condominiums and life leases
• Purchase/ sale of residential real estate

Wills & Estates

• Estate administration (probate)
• Estate planning
• Tax and family law considerations
• Creation of corporate and family trusts
• Wills and codicils
• Substitute decision-making and powers of attorney
• Estate administration

Labour Relations & Employment Law & Immigration

• Employment contracts
• Collective bargaining (management-side)
• Certification applications
• Unfair labour practice complaints
• Grievance and interest arbitration
• Employment Standards and Human Rights matters
• Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety issues
• Wrongful dismissal litigation
• Departing employee injunctions and lawsuits
• Immigration and employee relocation

Insurance Law

• Bodily injury defence
• Accident benefits
• Defence of fraudulent claims
• Commercial liability claims
• Professional negligence defence
• Occupiers’ liability
• Property damage

Municipal Law

• Assessment Appeals
• Municipal Liability
• Bylaws
• Resolutions
• Formation & Organization of Municipal Economic Development Corporations
• Advising Municipalities

Personal Injury

• Motor Vehicle Accidents
• Slip & Fall/ Occupier’s Liability Cases
• Wrongful Death
• Accident Benefit Claims against Insurers
• Claims against Disability Insurers
• Dog Bites
   

CLIENTS WE SERVE

Businesses – All Types/ Sizes

The business of Wishart is business. Each client’s success is our success. Everything we do at Wishart is premised on enhancing opportunities and profitability for every business size, type and location. Our priority is problem prevention and avoidance.

Personal Injury and Accidents

To obtain the proper compensation for injuries and losses of income, health or well-being, Wishart will expertly handle your case on a contingency basis – and only be paid when you are.

Public Institutions

Wishart understands the special considerations that boards and administrators must address. The public scrutiny of decisions and expenditures, conflict of interest issues, freedom of information, protections of privacy, access to funding and providing legal options relative to actions taken or planned, are just a few of the areas where Wishart can assist.

Industry and Transportation

Industry: Industrial clients trust Wishart to serve every local interest, to create mutually beneficial cross border partnerships and to design the most profitable international supply agreements. Wishart is industry’s first partner for the drafting of supply contracts, plant expansions, financing and labour matters. Transportation: On transportation issues, be it rail, air, water or road, Wishart’s experts deal with Federal and Provincial legislation, such as Highway Traffic Act and the Canada Transportation Act. We advise our clients on all regulations, which impact their efficiency and profitability.

Financial Institutions

Whether it be designing a workout, rehabilitating a borrower, guiding a receiver, collecting a debt, or a liquidation, Wishart’s insolvency team uses all their powers of persuasion to obtain the results you desire. We also assist in the financing of capital equipment/ property and securing lending transactions.

Real Estate

Wishart acts for buyers and sellers of commercial, residential and industrial property. We assist with financing, mortgages of all types, wills and estate planning.