Having successfully helped with hundreds of transactions over almost 17 years of practice, including share and asset purchase and sale transactions, management buyouts and family business ownership transitions, Pratibha is a practical, experienced and engaged M&A lawyer for your next business sale or purchase.
Pratibha provides advice to entrepreneurs, family-owned and operated businesses, medium-sized companies and larger national and international companies. Her practice includes acting for buyers and sellers across a variety of industries on acquisitions and sales of private businesses, assisting with incorporations, corporate structuring and reorganizations, and drafting various contracts. Pratibha also advises clients on employment issues arising in M&A transactions. Her practice is focused on three general areas:
- Start-up phase – assisting with and advising on business formation, organization and structure
- Growth and expansion phase – advising on a broad range of day-to-day legal matters including contracts, capitalization, human resources, reorganizations and other corporate and commercial matters
- Exit, succession and transition phase – acting for buyers and sellers on business acquisition and sale transactions, mergers and management buy-outs
Pratibha has acted for clients in the following areas:
- Advising on business acquisitions and dispositions, structured as share or asset purchase/sale transactions across a variety of industries.
- Acting for corporations and business owners on incorporations, corporate structuring, reorganizations, restructuring and amalgamations.
- Drafting and advising on a variety of agreements including shareholders agreements, subscription agreements, confidentiality and non-disclosure, non-competition/solicitation agreements.
- Advising on governance issues of public institutions.
- Advising on labour and employment issues arising in M&A transactions, including terminations/offers of employment during a business acquisition/disposition and post-employment duties of confidentiality, non-competition, non-solicitation and fiduciary obligations.