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Home > Our Services > Corporate and Business

Corporate and Business

Our team can provide you with comprehensive business law services as your business reaches important milestones — incorporation, partnership, joint ventures, business trusts, amalgamation or dissolution.   We pride ourselves on getting to know the unique needs of each business with whom we work, and to best tailoring our services to match those unique needs. Depending on your needs, we can assist you in the day-to-day – preparation of the annual minutes, corporate resolutions and proceedings necessary for proper corporate business record keeping.   In addition, our multidisciplinary team help our clients achieve their goals and provide a range of services in the larger context by coordinating with our colleagues in such practice areas as tax, corporate finance and energy and natural resources.

McInnes Cooper is ranked first overall in “Corporate Lawyers” for Halifax in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2020. To see the most recent rankings, click here.

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    Acted as counsel for Port Hawkesbury Paper LP, Nova Scotia Power's largest customer, in the development of a specific electricity rate.…

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    Represented a renewable energy company in the $60 million acquisition of a storage terminal in Nova Scotia, with plans to expand and develop the…

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