Corporate Legal Services

Beth Bandler Professional Corporation

Transactional lawyer experienced in drafting and negotiating complex agreements, contracts and commercial transactions.  Excellent writing and communication skills with proven analytical skills and business acumen. Skilled in anticipating obstacles and developing innovative solutions in alignment with business strategy. Track record of managing multiple projects, working independently and as part of a team. Provides a wide range of corporate legal services to businesses primarily in the manufacturing, aerospace, environmental, high technology, rough and polished diamond marketing and luxury diamond jewelry retail sectors including corporate governance.

• Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Bill 198 (Ontario) assistance re disclosure controls and internal controls over financial reporting preparedness committees including documentation and scoping programs
• multi-million dollar domestic, international and multi-jurisdictional acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures
• instrumental in reducing risk on international, export and domestic contracts for sale of goods by conducting seminars on contracting, early involvement in negotiating process, and preparation of standard form contracts
• counsels in a concise business-like manner on corporate policies and on a wide variety of legal issues including, employment, real estate and equipment rental, lease, purchase and sale, equipment financing, computer hardware and software acquisitions, agency and representative agreements, business alliances, technology licensing and transfer, patent and trademarks, royalty agreements, long term product off-take agreements, health care and pension related matters
• new company startups and new product development from design through to prototype testing and sale
• long term supply agreements and revenue sharing agreements with OEMs
• corporate reorganizations
• co-generation and bio fuel projects
• Corporate Governance: review of existing practices and drafting policies and mandates for committees, chairman, CEO and lead director
• Financing and securitization programs and multi-million dollar term and revolving credit facility issues
• project coordinator (multimillion dollar projects)
• liaison between management and outside counsel, domestic and international
• debenture buyback and share purchase programs
• contract review
• settlement negotiations
• precedents for corporate secretarial departments for public companies in anticipation of IPO
• corporate secretarial services to public and private companies and company liaison to corporate governance committees 

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Last update: August 8, 2009