Business law

Business lawyer

Sound business decisions start with a sound legal structure.

We support businesses in the Outaouais and Mauricie regions: drafting and negotiating contracts, incorporation, and day-to-day legal advice for SMEs.

  • Contract drafting and review
  • Contract negotiation
  • Incorporation
  • Strategic support for SMEs

What we do

Typical interventions

Running a business means making important decisions: starting a company, choosing a structure, entering into an agreement, acquiring an asset, bringing in a partner or ending a commercial relationship. In each of these situations, the legal consequences can be significant.

At N&E Avocats, we work alongside entrepreneurs and businesses to protect their interests and support them in their business decisions.

Our approach combines an understanding of your commercial objectives with rigorous legal analysis. We support you both in preventing disputes and when they become unavoidable.

Anticipate the risks. Protect the value. Decide with confidence.

Your business represents time, capital and work. Protecting it deserves a legal strategy equal to what you have built.

N&E Avocats — The law at the service of your business.

Incorporation and business start-up

Starting a business is a decisive step. The choice of legal structure, the allocation of interests between partners and the rules that will govern their relationship can have consequences well beyond the launch.

We support entrepreneurs in putting in place a legal structure suited to their objectives.

Our work may cover the incorporation of the company, the relationships between partners, the necessary agreements and the documents required to govern the operation of the business properly.

Your business starts with a decision. Make sure its structure matches your vision.

Shareholder and partnership agreements

A business can bring several people together around a shared vision. But when interests diverge, the absence of clear rules can quickly become a source of conflict.

A shareholder or partnership agreement makes it possible to set the rules of the game in advance.

We help you structure these relationships in order to protect each party's interests and the stability of the business. We can address voting rights, decision-making, transfers of shares or units, exit mechanisms and situations of disagreement between partners.

The best agreements are the ones you hope never to need.

Commercial contracts

Commercial relationships rest on commitments. When those are poorly defined, ambiguity can quickly become costly.

We draft, review and negotiate your commercial contracts so that your interests are clearly protected.

Depending on your needs, we can act on service contracts, commercial agreements, partnerships, supplier contracts or other business agreements.

Our objective is not simply to produce a legal document, but to understand the reality of your business so the contract genuinely fits your activity.

Clarity today can avoid a dispute tomorrow.

Business purchase and sale

Buying or selling a business is often one of the most important financial decisions in an entrepreneur's life.

Such a transaction requires careful analysis of the assets, the obligations, the contracts, the risks and the terms of the deal.

We support you through the various legal stages of the transaction in order to protect your interests and secure your investment.

Whether you are a buyer or a seller, we help you understand the commitments you are making, the risks to which you are exposed and the protections that must be built into the transaction.

Behind every transaction there is value. Our role is to help protect it.

Commercial litigation

A commercial dispute can quickly consume time and resources and jeopardise a business relationship.

Our first step is to understand the dispute, the financial and commercial stakes and your objectives.

Where possible, we seek an efficient resolution of the conflict. Where the dispute must be brought before the courts, we defend your interests with determination.

We act in contractual disputes, conflicts between partners or shareholders, commercial claims and disagreements relating to the performance of agreements.

Our objective is not to prolong a conflict. It is to defend your position and seek the best possible outcome.

Debt recovery

When a client or a partner fails to meet their financial obligations, the consequences can quickly affect a company's cash flow.

We assist you in the steps taken to recover the sums owed to you, favouring an approach proportionate to the value and the circumstances of the debt.

Depending on the situation, we can act on pre-litigation steps, formal demand letters, negotiations and the judicial proceedings required.

Protecting your business also means protecting what is owed to it.

Governance and corporate advice

As a business grows, its legal issues become more complex.

Directors' decisions, relationships between shareholders, corporate obligations and decision-making mechanisms must be governed rigorously.

We support entrepreneurs and executives with their governance issues and their business decisions.

Our objective is to allow you to make informed decisions while reducing the legal risks liable to affect your business.

Your business evolves. Its legal framework must evolve with it.

Need a contract reviewed?

A clause checked before signing costs less than a dispute afterwards.

Meet us

Three offices in Quebec

129 promenade du Portage, suite 210, Gatineau

Gatineau

129 promenade du Portage, suite 210
Gatineau, QC J8X 2K2
(819) 664-0738
324 rue des Forges, Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières

324 rue des Forges
Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 2G8
(819) 635-2689
455 rue King Ouest, Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke

455 rue King Ouest
Sherbrooke, QC
(819) 635-2689

info@neavocats.com