Michelle Buchanan

• Assist with routine incorporations, amendments, continuances, amalgamations, dissolutions, business name and partnership registrations, extra provincial registrations of corporations and limited partnerships, and related corporate maintenance matters;
• Draft documents relating to incorporations, organizations, amalgamations, amendments/alterations, rollovers, redemptions, annual proceedings, dividends, continuances, dissolutions, revivals, extra-provincial registrations, limited partnerships and business names;
• Draft corporate resolutions, notices, agreements and other ancillary documents in connection with transactions;
• Draft basic share provisions and documents pertaining to corporate and tax reorganizations (ITA ss 51, 85, 86), financing and share or asset purchase transactions
• Conduct corporate minute book reviews and prepare reports. Analyze corporate charter documents and corporate records to ensure compliance with governing statutes and make recommendations on relevancy and remedial actions;
• Conduct corporate searches and analyze filings;
• Maintain and review corporate records, securities ledgers and registers, including uploading executed documents to virtual minute books;
• Consult and collaborate with solicitors and clients to receive and implement instructions at onset and during the course of corporate transactions and reorganizations;
• Deal with corporate M&A and corporate tax matters, from onset to completion, including mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, due diligence matters, review of corporate records, preparation of related material, organizing record books.
• Drafting estate planning documents including Wills, Powers of Attorney, Representation Agreements, Nominations of Committee and Living Wills;
• Assisting with probate applications including reviewing Last Will and Testament, determining beneficiaries and notice requirements, drafting probate application material and conducting searches and dealing with assembling asset list for inclusion in the application.

Assisted sole practitioner and senior paralegal in general corporate/commercial practice