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Our Vancouver corporate lawyers and business lawyers provide a business start-up package, available to qualified individuals, that includes a valuable wealth of tools and services designed to accelerate the transformation of your idea or early-stage start-up into a viable business – all at a manageable cost.

Our start-up package includes the following documents & services.

  • Initial consultation with the client and receipt of instructions.
  • Incorporation and organization of a new British Columbia corporation (with name reservation and our firm standard 7 classes of share structure).
  • Up to 3 hours of time consulting and/or providing customized document preparation with an intermediate associate lawyer and 1 hour with a senior lawyer for the first 12 months of our retainer with the client.
  • Access to and use of the following documents for the first 12 months of our retainer:
    • Annotated unanimous shareholders’ agreement for two individual shareholders
    • Website terms of use
    • Privacy policy
    • Independent contractor agreement
    • Employment agreement
    • Subscription agreement (for use by Accredited Investors and by Friends,
    • Family and Business Associates in BC, Alberta, Ontario)
    • Commercial mutual non-disclosure (NDA) agreement
    • Commercial one-way non-disclosure (NDA) agreement
    • Services agreement
    • Demand Promissory Note (non-interest bearing)

 

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