The firm provides commercial and corporate advice to clients in a broad range of industries. Our corporate practice encompasses the purchase and sale of businesses, shareholder agreements, secured transactions, private financing, commercial leasing and the provision of general corporate advice to a stable of successful businesses. Our typical client is an owner operated small or mid-sized enterprise or family business. We also represent Canadian public companies for whom we restrict our advice and services to private company transactions, including acquisitions, and Canadian subsidiaries of multinational enterprises.

We represent dozens of start-up and early stage corporations and are involved in corporate structuring including a broad range of financing transactions from a variety of institutional and private sources. We represent both franchisors and franchisees including drafting franchise agreements and disclosure documentation. Woolgar VanWiechen Ketcheson Ducoffe LLP also acts for not-for-profit and charitable corporations in the arts and environmental endeavours.

Recent transactions on which Woolgar VanWiechen Ketcheson Ducoffe LLP has been retained as lead counsel include:

• Reorganization of one of Canada's largest leisure tour operators
• Sale of one of Canada's best known and most prestigious independent book publishers
• Restructuring and sale of bottled water business including water source
• Merger of an independent specialty fund management company with full service institutional investment manager public company
• $25,000,000 private placement convertible debentures issued by a Canadian software company
• $5,000,000 construction financing of Toronto boutique hotel
• Negotiated sponsorship and revenue sharing agreement for internet content provider with large multinational environmental charity
• Acquisition by a major Canadian public company of private company for earnings accretion and revenue diversification purposes
• Start-up and financing of independent residential real estate brokerage Right at Home Realty, inc. now the largest office (by number of agents) in Toronto Real Estate Board

The principal of our corporate solutions team is:

Mark C. Woolgar