Business Law

Harper Grey LLP has a core group of senior business lawyers focused on offering clients corporate legal advice. We provide legal services for individuals, corporations and other entities dealing with matters that arise from operating a business, such as acquisitions, sales, financing, leasing, employment issues and other contractual affairs.

In addition, several members of the Harper Grey LLP business law group help clients with wills, estates and estate planning. They work with individual and family business owners who to design solutions for estate planning and succession issues. 

John Brown chairs the business law group at Harper Grey LLP. Please contact him at 604.895.2803 or via email at jbrown@harpergrey.com.

We help clients with business law services such as:

• Contract negotiation and set-up
• Sale, merger and acquisition of businesses
• Incorporations and corporate re-organizations
• Personal property transactions and financing transactions
• Real property transactions and real property financing
• Leasing
• Wills and estate planning
• Succession planning for family owned businesses

Representative Client Work

• Acquisition and disposition of real estate holdings for local and national corporations
• Purchase and disposition of a BC company for its software licensing capability throughout North America
• Acting for a multi-national engineering and environmental consulting company in the acquisition of a Canadian company with operations in six Canadian jurisdictions
• Purchase of a BC company for its software technology for a US company
• Purchase and sale of interests of minority shareholders in closely held corporations
• Purchase and sale of dental, medical and other health care practices
• Advice regarding public private partnerships
• Represented Hollinger Inc., Southam Inc. and other companies in the acquisition of over 100 newspaper businesses at locations in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and other provinces in Canada
• Represented a Japanese trading company in the purchase of a partnership interest in a pulp mill in British Columbia
• Represented a private company in purchasing a public road construction and maintenance business from the British Columbia Provincial Government
• Represented a major international chemical company in the sale of an island in British Columbia with contaminated groundwater resulting from over 70 years of mixing explosives and other chemicals
• Represented the White Spot/Shato Holdings Group in numerous real estate and commercial transactions since 1983
• Represented REIT on its 2005 British Columbia apartment portfolio acquisition and on the subsequent financing of those properties
• Represented a Bentall Centre co-owner on the $60 million refinancing of the other owner’s project debt
• Represented a Canadian pension fund on the sale of a major British Columbia shopping centre ($50 million)
• Represented the Korean-sponsored majority owner of a $200 million mixed use residential/commercial/hotel complex on various matters including hotel financing, franchise and management arrangements and the joint venture dissolution
• Represented a purchaser on the real property and business acquisition of two regulated retirement projects involving some 300 employees, dealing with regulatory approvals and structuring the new operating arrangements