welcome to jgs/law
A BUSINESS LAW FIRM HELPING YOUR COMPANY FIND ITS WAY
welcome to jgs/law
A BUSINESS LAW FIRM HELPING YOUR COMPANY FIND ITS WAY
OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU
EXPERIENCE YOU CAN TRUST
We will provide knowledgeable representation for you and your business. Out reputation and history of success with our clients and their business needs speaks for itself. There's no substitution for the best.
DEDICATED SUPPORT
Jim is your lawyer - it's as simple as that.
WE TREAT YOU WITH RESPECT
Whether your business is looking to get started or it's in need of some negotiation skills, you can rest assured that we're going to help you. It's easy to get lost with bigger law firms where your legal problems may just be too small or where your legal team is constantly changing so that you simply don't know who to call. Jim is here for you , all the time. Your problems are important to us.
Practice areas
CORPORATE
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
COMMERCIAL
- We can help you establish your business, whether a sole proprietorship, corporation, partnership or business trust. Once on your way, we can help maintain your business organization, including helping you with routine annual corporate compliance issues by acting as your registered and records office and filing the necessary documents to keep your organization up to date with provincial and federal regulatory authorities. We can provide advice on corporate governance, including director and officer liability issues. The ongoing relationship between shareholders or partners requires special attention and we can help you by negotiating and drafting shareholder and partnership agreements. When your business is winding down, we can provide guidance with the liquidation and dissolution procedures.
COMMERCIAL
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
COMMERCIAL
- Every business has unique issues. We can help with strategic advice and can negotiate and prepare the contracts which you will need to carry on your business, including supply contracts, licensing arrangements, cross-border transfer pricing agreements, franchise arrangements and financing transactions.
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
PARTNERSHIPS AND TRUSTS
- Buying or selling a business is complicated. Whether a privately negotiated acquisition or disposition or a public merger or take-over, we can provide advice on strategy as well as the mechanics of the transaction. We can help you prepare all necessary documents.
PARTNERSHIPS AND TRUSTS
PARTNERSHIPS AND TRUSTS
PARTNERSHIPS AND TRUSTS
- Partnerships and business and personal trusts are commonly used in tax planning. We can help in establishing partnership and trusts and co-ordinating with your tax advisor to make sure that your tax plan is properly documented. We have incorporated a number of trust corporations under the Loan and Trust Corporations Act (Alberta).
NOT-FOR- PROFIT
PARTNERSHIPS AND TRUSTS
NOT-FOR- PROFIT
- We all want to give back, whether through community or other not-for-profit or charitable organizations. We can help in establishing not-for-profit organizations under the Societies Act (Alberta), the Companies Act (Alberta) or the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act. We can advise on the legal issues confronting your not-for-profit organization.
PERSONAL
PARTNERSHIPS AND TRUSTS
NOT-FOR- PROFIT
- It's not always about your business - sometimes it's about you. We can help you with those legal issues that impact you personally.
JIM SMELTZER
James G. Smeltzer
Jim is a senior corporate lawyer with over 40 years of corporate and commercial law experience. He helps clients establish their businesses and advises on corporate reorganizations, corporate governance and business contracts. He also advises on security law matters, mergers and acquisition transactions (including take-over bids and going private transactions), share and asset acquisitions and dispositions, private and public equity and debt financings, as well as intellectual property transactions. Jim served as the head of the corporate department, Calgary managing partner and Chief Operating Partner of Bennett Jones LLP, a prominent Canadian law firm, and as Chief Operating Officer of Deloitte Tax Law LLP, a law firm affiliated with the accounting firm of Deloitte LLP, prior to the start of JGS/LAW.
Jim serves on the board of directors of numerous corporations and charitable organizations.
Education
Queen's University B.Sc. 1976
University of Toronto LLB, 1979
Bar Admissions
Ontario, 1981
Alberta, 1981
