Corporate and Commercial Lawyers for Litigation in Calgary

Corporate and commercial lawyers are retained if you have been sued or if someone has caused you damages. Civil litigation sounds complicated but basically means that someone is suing or being sued. While negotiated settlements are sometimes reached before lawyers get involved, often times they do not. We take a client centered approach to corporate and commercial litigation. We will let our client know the pros and cons to each potential course of action. We will then help the client decide what is best for them and how to best pursue it.

How to Avoid Being Sued

Our Corporate and commercial lawyers can help you avoid being sued. By properly drafting contracts, and consulting with a commercial lawyer before acting, you can sometimes avoid business disputes and dealing with a lawsuit. By structuring your business correctly, you may avoid litigation. A non-legal effective way of avoiding being sued is to offer exceptional service. Poor service leads to emotional clients who are more likely to litigate even when it does not make financial sense.

The Stages That Corporate & Commercial Lawyers Can Help At

• Initial risk assessments
• Assessment of liability
• Negotiations to settle the claim
• Drafting settlement agreements
• Drafting of Statement of Claims
• Drafting of Civil Claims (provincial court or small claims court)
• Filing and statement of claim
• Discoveries
• Mediation
• Judicial dispute resolution
• Injunctions
• Various orders (including cease and desist)
• Trials
• Appeals
• Discontinuing claims

Types of Actions a Corporate and Commercial Lawyer helps With

Civil litigation (suing) matters are dealt with by our corporate and commercial lawyers. While areas like family law involve the courts, we have other lawyers who specialize in that type of litigation. Our law firm has extensive experience in the following types of civil litigation matters. This list is not exhaustive so please call and speak to one of our corporate and commercial lawyers.

Civil Litigation Related to Shareholders

If you have shareholder dispute issues, we can help. We help with shareholder disputes, minority shareholder oppression claims, stock option disputes, and dissenting shareholder remedies. If you need to know what to do when there are shareholder problems, call our corporate and commercial lawyers. Remember it is essential to properly keep your corporate minute book up-to-date.

Contract Related Litigation

Contract disputes can cover a large variety of situations. If you had a client or partner breach a contract, fail to follow the terms of a contract or try to change the terms of a contract, contact us. Our corporate and commercial lawyers deal with contract disputes involving, leases, purchases of land, service agreements, joint venture agreements, debt collection, manufacturing contracts, non-competition agreements, non-solicitation agreements, and many more. Call now and see how we can help.

Corporate Litigation

Our corporate litigation lawyers regularly deal with shareholders’ disputes, officer and director liability, commercial fraud, and any dispute that arises between corporations.

Commercial Litigation

Commercial litigation lawyers, deal with a variety of legal matters. These include banking litigation, securities litigation, franchise litigation and debt collection.

Property Litigation

Property litigation lawyers deal with such matters as real estate (ownership, damage and contract issues), intellectual property (such as trade mark, infringement & passing off, copy right, and patent), estate Litigation (representing the estate, beneficiaries, or others) and trust litigation.

Administrative Law

Administrative law lawyers deal with such issues as administrative disputes, tribunal decision disputes, review board decision dispute and many others. we have represented individuals faced with losing their accreditation, getting sanctioned or fined as well as student related issues.

The Types of Clients That We Represent in Corporate Lawsuits

Our commercial lawyers represent the following types of clients. We act for them as plaintiffs (those who are suing someone else) and defendants (those who are being sued). We can also represent special interest groups to a lawsuit and those who have been third partied into a lawsuit. These are people who are not originally named in the lawsuit but who the defendant thinks also has some or all of the liability. These clients include:

• Individuals
• Partnerships
• Associations
• Shareholders
• Boards
• Directors
• Officers
• Professionals
• Public companies
• Private companies
• Condominium corporations
• Special interest groups
• Third parties
• Estates

Why Hire Kahane Law Office as Your Corporate & Commercial Law Firm

Central Corporate & Commercial Lawyer Location in Calgary

We are conveniently located in Calgary. Our location is easily accessible from all quadrants of the city. We have a two acre site, so you will not have to worry about parking. As we are central means that people from South Calgary and North Calgary can come to our office with ease.

Legal Fees

We work with our clients to find solutions that work for them. We corporate and commercial lawyers who have a variety of levels of experience. This means that you pay only for the level of service that is required for individual parts of your corporate and commercial litigation. We truly have a team that works together in the client’s best interest. Our experience shows that that these clients are not only repeat clients but ones who refer us to their family and friends.

Controlled Lawyer Retainers

You can control costs and how much work we do. Our corporate and commercial lawyers can act for you for the entire lawsuit or we can just meet with you for an hour to discuss what your position is so that you can make an informed choice. You have the ability to change your mind with flexibility. You only pay us for the work we do.

Exceptional Lawyer Availability

We make ourselves available for you. Our office policy is to return client phone calls each business day. Our corporate and commercial lawyers pride themselves on working with clients timelines.

Finding a corporate and commercial lawyers in Calgary

Our corporate and commercials lawyers have varied experience and offers exceptional service for assisting with your commercial law litigation needs. Located in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Call Kahane Law today 403-225-8810 or toll-free at 1-877-225-8817, or email us directly here.