Solutions for business
Because your needs for legal support will change over time, we can act as your in-house counsel once in a while, several hours a month, or even on a full-time basis. You decide how much of our services you need according to your budget.
Employment Agreements
Leases
Purchase Agreements
Master Service Agreements
CA / NDA’s
Supplier Agreements
Licences
Terms and Conditions
Virtual Minute Books
Simplex Venture
Contract review and Sporadic Support
We love shaking things up and working with emerging businesses! It’s a chance for us to flex our entrepreneurial muscle. It also keeps us on our toes and forces us to stay ahead of the curve in delivering legal solutions that protect your business in ways that everyone can understand. We won’t overlawyer your documents. And, since our lawyers have lots of experience working in large companies, we are a great resource to have in your corner to level the playing field if you’re negotiating with a giant.
A few ideas on how we can help
Employment Agreements
Setting clear expectations means having fewer disputes.
Commercial Leases
Protect your rights as tenant or landlord.
Commercial Disputes
Understand the strengths and weaknesses of your position. We can facilitate Alternative Dispute Resolution as a way to deal with a legal problem quickly without going to court, and maybe even salvage the relationship.
Loan Documents
Banking and finance is one of our largest practice areas. We know what is market and what isn’t. AND, what can be negotiated and what can’t.
Shareholder Agreements
A well-structured shareholder agreement means thinking ahead about how you will run, grow and exit the business. It's so important this be done right.
Due Diligence
Bulk Layoffs
Multiple Amendments
Self-serve Procurement Contracts
Simplex Labs
Development and Management of Legal and Legal Tech Projects
We wouldn't blame you for thinking that the legal industry and cool technology don’t belong in the same sentence. And yet we see technology as a way to make legal solutions more efficient and legal analysis more accurate and useful. We have our own tech resources, working hand and hand with our lawyers to analyze, automate and ultimately de-risk legal functions. We are also platform agnostic: Whatever works best out there is what we use.
A few ideas on how we can help
Automate Routine Processes
A tailor-made workflow that ensures all steps are followed, in the correct order and on time is not only possible, but is easier to build than you think. Our whole firm runs this way and your company could benefit too.
A.I. Contract Analysis
Finding the risk elements that might lurk in a pool of hundreds of your contracts can be daunting. Working with A.I., our talented lawyers can do the job right and affordably. So in case you're looking to sell one day, find out first what your liabilities are by getting a clear picture on what your contracts say. Then, manage the risks by identifying where you can improve your position.
Take the Mystery out of Terminations
We use A.I. to search years of court settlements that match your employee’s circumstances to advise on the right settlement amount so you can confidently offer (and defend) a termination package.
Create Contract Templates
To scale, your legal function needs to be rock solid. We can help you level up your contract templates. And we’ll automate those templates allowing for easy amendments and even e-signatures.
Supply Chain
Merger or Acquisition
Raising Capital
Governance and Compliance
Employment
Manage IP / IT
Simplex Embedded
Medium to Long term In-House Counsel
Its challenging for a company to manage the natural ebbs and lows of its legal needs. We designed our service scale up or down, in pace with that reality. It's our way of showing that every business in Canada can have an in-house counsel.
What we can help with
Level the Field
Our lawyers have worked for, and negotiated for and against the largest companies in Canada. Get their experience on your side when you're negotiating with a behemoth.
‘Debundle’ your legal work
Look critically at your legal tasks and split them up. Send the general commercial to Simplex at our rates, and the specialized work to external counsel at theirs. Same quality work, but a large reduction in overall expense.
Procurement Centre of Excellence
Take a legal-heavy function like procurement and send it to the experts. Save your internal resources for more strategic initiatives.
Manage External Counsel
A great in-house lawyer brings tremendous value in helping you manage what you spend on external counsel. We can craft an external counsel policy to set expectations with your legal providers and monitor their invoices to ensure they are in line with those guidelines.
Parachute us in to Manage that Big Project
If it's time to buy a company or sell yours, get our experience on your side to bring order to the chaos and keep any external lawyers on task and on budget.
Craft policies that make sense
We will work with your corporate leadership to build pragmatic, easy to understand policies on important issues such as Work From Home, Whistleblower, Anti-Money Laundering to name a few.
Asset-based lenders
Foreign operators in Canada
Banks and Credit Unions
Corporate Services
Simplex Enterprise
Back-office Outsourcing
Are you a Canadian or foreign company lending into the Canadian market?
We can automate your intake process , and build performance dashboards and an effective registration system for security and collateral. We can also virtually manage subsidiary companies in Canada for annual maintenance and do other corporate tasks.
A few ideas on how we can help
Be your Sherpa in Quebec
Quebec is a large and vibrant market in Canada, but with a unique legal system. Our knowledge of it is deep and we can ensure you avoid the pitfalls and remain compliant.
De-risk self-registrations
Lenders take on plenty of risk. Keep errors at bay by letting Simplex take care of your security and collateral registrations.
Open up the work day
With operations in Eastern and Western time zones, our opening and closing hours are extended.