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We all negotiate all the time, but we aren’t all born negotiators. Thankfully, “getting to yes” without giving more ground than necessary is a skill that can be developed if you know fundamental negotiation strategies and tactics. Whether the negotiations are with potential buyers for a business, suppliers about a new contract, or new hires about job responsibilities and compensation, every business owner or manager will benefit from improving their ability to negotiate.

This article briefly discusses how an employment agreement can protect your business and minimize ‎employment-related liabilities, and identifies some of the pitfalls for employers to avoid.‎

Government agencies have a wide range of powers to search, inspect, investigate and obtain information ‎and documents from corporate entities, individuals and organizations. An organization’s readiness for – ‎and its responses to – governmental inspections and investigations can be crucial. ‎

This is the first in a forthcoming series of articles highlighting the many ways that environmental law ‎issues can impact your business. In this article, we will address some of the key environmental ‎considerations that all business owners should take into account when entering into agreements of ‎purchase and sale and leases.  ‎

An estate freeze is a common strategy used for the transition of a family business corporation which ‎locks-in or “freezes” the value of a taxpayer’s existing assets. This article provides a brief overview of the steps, considerations and advantages of implementing an ‎estate freeze using a trust.‎

Cybersecurity attacks are happening more and more often, and they can be very costly for businesses. ‎In Canada, almost all Canadian organizations reported a cybersecurity attack in 2022, with 25 percent of ‎organizations experiencing at least one attack per day and most organizations experiencing more than ‎‎11-30 attacks per month. ‎

Intellectual property is often thought of as an asset owned by sophisticated businesses. However it is ‎vital for starts ups and small companies to also consider whether intellectual property should be ‎strategically used as a sword or a shield, or perhaps both, to grow their business potential. ‎

With generative AI increasingly being incorporated into new and old products and services, a ‎number of issues related to intellectual property have come to the forefront of its use. In this article, we look at what protections are offered by intellectual property, not only for the ‎tools themselves, but also for their inputs and outputs.‎