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Start-up Package

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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The regulatory landscape for mortgage services in British Columbia is about to change significantly…
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The regulatory landscape for mortgage services in British Columbia is about to change significantly…

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On October 13, 2026, British Columbia’s new Mortgage Services Act, S.B.C. 2022, c. 27 (the “MSA”) will come into force and effect, replacing the longstanding Mortgage Brokers Act, R.S.B.C. ch. 313 (the “MBA”). The MSA introduces a modernized regulatory framework for mortgage service providers, including expanded licensing requirements, increased disclosure obligations, enhanced enforcement tools, and significantly higher penalties for non-compliance.

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This week, Watson Goepel was proud to take part in International Connections: Europe & Canada, the second installment in a series dedicated to strengthening the commercial ties between Canada and European markets. Hosted in RBC’s Executive Dining Space in the heart of downtown Vancouver, the event brought together business leaders, trade professionals, and government representatives for an evening of substantive conversation and genuine connection.

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Getting an engineer, accountant, or security guard in British Columbia may not become more expensive after all, at least for now…

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On September 18, 2026, the BC Government announced that it is pausing the planned expansion of the provincial sales tax (PST) to certain professional services that had been scheduled to take effect on October 1, 2026. This BC PST expansion pause comes as the Province cited ongoing international trade disruptions and economic uncertainty as the reason for the delay.

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