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Providing Corporate Legal Services to Atlantic Canada

Our Corporate Services Department assists companies and other entities in maintaining legal compliance with filing and registration requirements throughout Atlantic Canada and in undertaking other routine corporate and commercial legal tasks.

Based in all four Atlantic provinces, our Corporate Services Department works in an effective and cost efficient manner with law firms, companies and company law departments from across Canada and around the world.

Incorporations

Our Corporate Services Department assists our lawyers with a variety of routine corporate matters, including:

  • incorporations, organizations and reporting letters
  • amalgamations, continuances and dissolutions
  • maintenance of basic corporate precedents and forms
  • our Corporate Services Department maintains libraries of minute books and corporate seals for Atlantic Canadian and CBCA companies.

Extra-Provincial Registrations

Our Corporate Services Department provides "one-stop shopping" for extra-provincial company registrations in Atlantic Canada. One phone call can begin the process of registering your client's business in all four Atlantic provinces. Once the registrations are complete, you will receive one report and one invoice. Corporate Services personnel will also handle your extra-provincial partnership and business name registrations. All annual renewals are coordinated directly by our Corporate Services Department.

Corporate Searches

Corporate Services staff undertake various routine searches, including:

  • corporate status, history and profile
  • trade-marks
  • name reservations
  • certificates of status and certified copies are obtained as required

Personal Property Security

The provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador, have each adopted a Personal Property Security Act (PPSA). Our firm performs the following services relating to the PPSA in these provinces:

  • on line searches
  • same day verification statements
  • PMSI registrations and notices
  • judgment and execution searches also available
Legal Services Atlantic Canada