by Andriessen & Associates | Apr 14, 2010 | Our Take on Things
For the past 11 years our firm has hired Articling Students. These are men and women who have finished their law degrees, completed the required Law Society seminars and/or exams depending on when they graduated Law School and spent 12 or 10 months with our firm,...
by Andriessen & Associates | Apr 9, 2010 | Our Take on Things
It is the time of year again when we start sending out our corporate maintenance reminder letters. And as such, I thought it would be appropriate to cover that issue here. Various provincial and federal statutes require that corporations meet basic requirements in...
by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 30, 2010 | Our Take on Things
April Fools Day is almost upon us and as tempting as it is to prank our Blog, I think that April Fools jokes are probably best left to my personal, rather than professional life (my family is hereby on notice of potential pranks and warned that any pranks played on...
by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 11, 2010 | Commercial Leasing, Corporate documentation, Litigation
A recent Court of Appeal case affirming an earlier Supreme Court decision, provides some interesting, and possibly surpirsing, commentary on the allocation of risk in commercial leases. In 1044589 Ontario Inc. carrying on business as Nantucket Business Centre v AB...
by Andriessen & Associates | Mar 5, 2010 | Our Take on Things
There is a great article in the Globe and Mail this week about the breakup of the business partnership behind the popular restaurant Le Papillon. The story is an excellent example of what can go right when people plan ahead for the future of a business, and when,...
