Our Asia Pacific Group

Our Asia Pacific Client Service Team is a multi-disciplinary team experienced in virtually all aspects of doing business in Canada of interest to clients in the Asia Pacific economic region.  Our Team's ability to provide comprehensive advice in all types of Canada-based business transactions is an important element of service to a wide variety of businesses, individuals and governmental clients.  Our Team also assists Canadian companies with their Pacific Rim trade and business relations and can make the difference in facilitating a transaction.  Our approach is to tailor the level of experience and judgment required for each client and project, and to call upon all areas of legal expertise to achieve high quality results in a cost-effective manner.

The Team is comprised of lawyers and intellectual property specialists, located in each of our offices across Canada and includes lawyers fluent in Asian languages and others with experience working in Asian law firms.

Our Services

Members of our Asia Pacific Client Service Team are able to provide advice in all areas of business law, including:

  • Establishment of all manner of new businesses and foreign invested enterprises (FIE's), including wholly foreign owned enterprises (WFOE's), joint ventures (CJV's, EJV's), partnerships, limited partnerships, and corporations; China based commercial transactions (with and emphasis on risk allocation particular to the China market);
  • Incorporation, organization and governance of corporations;
  • Equity, debt and project financing, including public offerings and other securitization matters;
  • Mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations;
  • Real estate development and transactions, including resort development projects;
  • All aspects of natural resource law, including forestry, agriculture, mining, and oil and gas;
  • Environmental law;
  • Corporate and personal domestic and international tax planning;
  • Labour relations and employment law;
  • Intellectual property protection and licensing, including technology transfers, franchising and trade-mark, copyright, industrial design and patent registrations and enforcement;
  • Banking and finance;
  • All manner of commercial relationships, including distribution and agency arrangements, franchises, manufacturing agreements, construction contracts and joint ventures;
  • International trade, including negotiating international trade agreements, representing clients in international dispute settlement proceedings, and advising on anti-dumping and countervailing duty regulations;
  • Domestic and international mediation, arbitration and litigation;
  • Work visas and immigration-related issues; and
  • International maritime centres, international finance centres and captive insurance.

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