Ian has a broad and very active corporate commercial practice, assisting clients with issues that arise in vital, growing business enterprises as well as complex business transactions.

Ian's efforts are focused on four areas:

• Assisting individuals and corporations in buying or selling businesses, business divisions or significant assets.
• Helping clients create and structure businesses, particularly dealing with ownership relationships such as shareholder agreements, partnership agreements and agreements with other individuals within the organization; and commercial relationships such as distribution, joint venture, supply and outsourcing. Included in this area is financing - primarily debt financing and private equity financing.
• Assisting and guiding individuals when the business or a specific relationship deteriorates.
• Negotiating and drafting technology contracts, including software and hardware procurement, development, licensing and partnering arrangements.

Ian:

• Helps business owners and managers deal with, oversee and complete change. This includes all aspects of reorganization, expansion, mergers and acquisitions. He provides early stage strategic input and ongoing guidance through planning and implementation.
• Helps owners and managers establish different types of relationships whether with fellow owners or people with whom they do business, and to avoid problems in those relationships.
• Helps owners and managers figure out resolutions to problems in relationships.

Ian is actively involved in managing business transactions as well as ongoing advisory relationships with the operations management of many of his clients. He provides practical legal and business strategic guidance and follows through with implementation. His client base is comprised primarily of closely held, owner-operated companies ranging from family owned businesses to substantial multi jurisdictional operations. Ian also represents a number of Canadian subsidiaries of large US multinational corporations and publicly traded companies.

Admissions and Affiliations

• Called to the Ontario Bar in 1993

Education

• B.A. (With Distinction) - University of Toronto 1988
• LL.B. - University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Ontario 1991

Contact Information

• Phone: 905.276.9111
• E-mail: ianwick@kmblaw.com

Publications

• Those Shareholders' Agreements Are Essential Eeading For Small Business»