Topic

Buying & selling

Share sales, asset sales, approvals, and what happens to employees and contracts when a business changes hands.

Answers

Do I need a lawyer to sell my business?

The specific triggers that make legal help unavoidable in a business sale: selling substantially all assets, real property, foreign buyers, and deal size.

How do I buy or sell a business?

What you are actually buying, the corporate approval a sale needs, what happens to employees under Ontario rules, and how closing works.