Clauses

When you hire a contractor to redesign your website, bring in a consultant to streamline your operations, or engage a marketing firm to run your campaigns, you are sharing something incredibly valuable: your business information. You share your customer lists, your pricing strategy, your internal processes, your plans for growth, and sometimes even information that […]

Shareholder disputes can stop a business in its tracks and hurt its value. Including an arbitration clause in your shareholder agreement gives you a private, quick, and binding way to resolve conflicts instead of going to court. Ontario courts usually enforce these clauses, as shown in Haas v. Gunasekaram and Spasiv v. Quality Green Inc.,

In Ontario, a time of the essence contract means every deadline may become a deal-breaker. Courts have shown that even being late by 35 or 9 minutes can lead to termination. But this clause does not cover open-ended obligations, such as reasonable efforts or acting as soon as possible. This can cause problems when drafting