Overview

Advanced Corporate Business Transactions, part of Emond Montgomery’s Working with the Law series, is by Elizabeth Gillis and a stellar group of contributing authors.

Ms. Gillis is Director, Corporate Services at the Toronto office of Miller Thomson, LLP. As a member of the firm’s management team, she is responsible for the administration of corporate search services, corporate law clerks, and other paralegals. She has served in various positions with the Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario (ILCO), including those of president, secretary, and program committee member.

TopFeatures

• ILCO-required (for the ILCO associate level law clerk corporate course)
• Acts as a companion text to Emond Montgomery’s Advanced Corporate Legal Procedures (which is also required for the ILCO associate level law clerk corporate course)
• Features a group of expert authors who provide in-depth examination of corporate legal procedures.
  Enables students and law clerks to assist lawyers adequately in the corporate transactions
• Explains, in a straightforward manner, the law behind the procedures, and the documents and steps that are required to complete transactions
• Describes various organizational tools that large law firm use in successfully managing large corporate transactions
• Discusses the types of due diligence that lawyers will carry out under different circumstances, and describes in detail how to review a minute book and various types of corporate searches
• Examines procedures to implement tax-driven transactions such as amalgamations, rollovers, and dissolutions
  
• Describes the steps to follow when a corporation wishes to acquire the shares or assets of another business
• Examines the process and requirements for financing the acquisition of a privately held corporation.
• Includes end-of-chapter review questions and/or discussion questions that can be used to monitor students progress
• Offers an Instructor’s guide that provides the answers to all review and discussion questions

TopContent Summary

Author Biographies
Acknowledgments
Introduction

• Chapter 1: Managing a Large Transaction
• Chapter 2: Due Diligence and the Commercial Transaction
• Chapter 3: Corporate Reorganizations: Amalgamations, Dissolutions, Windups, and Rollovers
• Chapter 4: Purchase and Sale of a Privately Held Business
• Chapter 5: Financing the Purchase of a Privately Held Business

Glossary
Index