Build a Strong Legal Foundation for Your Business
Financing your growth, bringing in a new shareholder, entering into an agreement with a supplier or turning receivables into working capital: each of these decisions depends on agreements that will shape your business long after they are signed.
Problems rarely arise at closing. They tend to surface when a shareholder wants to leave, a customer disputes an invoice, a supplier fails to perform or a lender declares a default. At that point, the terms you negotiated, the security you obtained and the remedies you preserved become critical. You need a lawyer who understands your business, the transaction and its long-term implications.
Advice That Goes Beyond Closing
Kugler Wechsler advises businesses of all sizes and across a range of industries, as well as founders, family-owned businesses, financial institutions, asset-based lenders and investors.
We begin by understanding the transaction, how your business operates and the results you want to achieve. We then translate those objectives into clear, consistent terms that work in day-to-day practice.
We get involved early to identify key issues, coordinate due diligence and negotiate documents that protect your interests while advancing your commercial objectives.
Our role does not end at closing. We also help ensure that your agreements remain effective as relationships evolve and financing needs change.
Our Business Law Services
- Structuring and negotiating credit facilities, term loans, operating lines and asset-based financing
- Drafting, reviewing and negotiating commercial agreements, contract templates and standard terms
- Drafting and negotiating shareholder agreements, buy-sell provisions and dispute resolution mechanisms
- Structuring and documenting receivables purchases, factoring programs and accounts receivable financing
- Advising on priorities, intercreditor agreements, subordinations and postponements
- Coordinating corporate due diligence and conditions precedent to funding
- Coordinating the Quebec aspects of national and cross-border factoring programs
